General Motors GMT-900 Takata Airbag Petition of Inconsequentiality

by Kevin Fitzgerald & David Schumann on September 4, 2018

The GM petition to avoid recalling 6.8 million of their pickups and SUVs can be found here. We have addressed their arguments technically here, and in this article, we focus…

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The Takata Airbag Recall. What You Need to Know From the Experts

by Kevin Fitzgerald & David Schumann on August 31, 2018

The Takata airbag recall started in 2008 with 4000 airbags and has grown to become the largest automotive recall in the history of the industry, with 70 million inflators in…

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Why NHTSA Should Have Long Ago Thrown Out GM’s Petition

by Kevin Fitzgerald & David Schumann on August 16, 2018

On January 11, 2018 General Motors conducted a test of a Takata SPI-YP GEN 1 passenger inflator from a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 that had spent its life in Texas’…

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