Fourteen automakers have recalled some 64 million Takata airbag inflaters in the United States, and millions more worldwide. But the safety agency said on Thursday that the ARC and Takata airbag inflaters had “significant design differences” and that the fatal ARC rupture probably had a different cause. American regulators are investigating hybrid airbag inflaters made by ARC that use both a gas and an explosive compound called ammonium nitrate. The death in Canada was the first known fatality linked to a rupture in an airbag from a supplier other than Takata. The fatal rupture raised the prospect of adding millions of cars to an already extensive recall of exploding airbags made by another manufacturer, Takata.

Source: New York Times August 04, 2016 22:36 UTC