GM Has at Least 20 Million Vehicles With Potentially Dangerous Air-Bag Parts. Up to 52 million inflators may be recalled.

Bad news! What is going on? How is this still possible in the year 2023? 

Airbags were introduced for cars in the 1970s. Since model year 1998, all new cars have been required to have air bags on both driver and passenger sides. Light trucks came under the rule in 1999.

"That makes the Detroit-based automaker among the most exposed in U.S. auto-safety regulators’ push to recall 52 million ARC Automotive air-bag inflators, according to people familiar with the matter. They can explode with so much force during a vehicle crash that metal shrapnel hits occupants in the face and neck. At least two people have been killed, and several others injured. ARC has said extensive field tests show no defect and the air-bag ruptures that occurred are few and isolated."

GM Has at Least 20 Million Vehicles With Potentially Dangerous Air-Bag Parts - WSJ Regulators held meeting on its determination that 52 million air-bag inflators made by ARC should be recalled