The Takata airbag scandal continues to claim lives more than two decades after it first emerged, yet a new airbag crisis with potentially similar repercussions is already unfolding, and it’s all to do with fake Chinese airbags. Some counterfeit airbags are exploding on deployment and hurling metal shrapnel into the cabin in the same way that the Takata airbags did, and NHTSA has linked them to multiple deaths.
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