A 50-year-old woman who died after a car wreck last month in California is the 11th U.S. victim of Takata Corp.'s defective airbag inflators. Takata airbags can inflate with too much force, which causes a metal canister to rupture and spew shrapnel into the vehicle. That can blow apart a metal canister designed to contain the explosion. Takata air bags can inflate with too much force, which causes a metal canister to rupture and spew shrapnel into the vehicle. (Joe Skipper/Reuters)In June, NHTSA urged owners of 313,000 older Hondas and Acuras to stop driving them and get them repaired, after new tests found that their Takata inflators are extremely dangerous.

Source: CBC News October 21, 2016 00:22 UTC