US auto safety regulators said on Wednesday there were about 85 million unrecalled Takata Corp air bag inflators in U.S. vehicles that would eventually need to be recalled unless the company can prove they are safe. This is the first public accounting by the U.S. government of the total number of unrecalled Takata air bag inflators. So far 28.8 million in the United States have been recalled due to the risk that they can explode with too much force and spray metal shards inside vehicles.
More than 11 people have been killed worldwide in incidents linked to defective Takata inflators, including the March 31 death of a 17-year-old driver in Texas. Globally, more than 50 million have been recalled.
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