Government Expands Air Bag Investigation To Include More Than 12 Million Vehicles
A component responsible for detecting a crash and deploying air bags has been malfunctioning due to electrical interference, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration says.
The federal government is expanding an investigation into malfunctioning air bags to include an additional 12.3 million vehicles with air bags that could fail to inflate in a crash.
The investigation now includes certain models of cars by Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mitsubishi, Toyota and Fiatthis control unit, which is supposed to deploy the airbag upon detecting a collision, could fail to sense the crash because of electrical interference caused by the crash itself.
