In a statement to CNN, Takata said that ammonium-nitrate has "significant advantages" over other methods for inflating airbags. "[I]t burns cleaner and emits significantly less particulate matter ...

“You’ve got all these little hot particles” that can burn people, Worsey says. Airbag makers were also looking for a chemical reaction that gave off more gas per gram of material so they ...

That moisture may make the chemicals that ignite to set off an airbag burn too quickly, causing the structure to break and "sends metal shards into the passenger cabin that can lead to serious ...

and some even had burn or char markings suggesting they had been previously deployed. “The importers are typically paying anywhere from $200 to $300 for a counterfeit airbag and then passing it ...

The carmaker says that a torn airbag may also allow hot gasses to escape, potentially burning occupants. Impacted E-Pace models were assembled for the 2021-2023 model years between November 11 ...

There's another massive airbag safety scandal brewing. Last week, General Motors issued a recall for almost a million SUVs in order to replace potentially dangerous airbag inflators, the third ...