As the Takata air bag saga drags on, concerns are growing that tens of millions of U.S. drivers with cars that haven’t been recalled could be at risk of death or injury from the potentially defective devices.Federal safety regulators last month confirmed that a South Carolina man’s death in December was caused by a driver’s air bag inflator that wasn’t under recall. It was the ninth Takata-related fatality in the U.S.
In a Feb. 10 letter to Mark Rosekind, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., urged the agency to recall all Takata inflators in U.S. cars. He said the agency’s current approach of issuing recalls piecemeal, “appears to be confusing many consumers” who wonder if their cars have an unsafe air bag that hasn’t been recalled.
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