In wake of GM recall, NHTSA said it is talking to car companies and air bag suppliers about how air bag performance relates to the position of the ignition. Here's an unsettling fact about cars ...

Another problem has developed with automotive air bags, this one resulting in recalls of up to 5 million vehicles worldwide. Continental Automotive Systems says in documents filed with the U.S.

QUESTION: Who are the other air bag manufacturers? ANSWER: In addition to Takata, Autoliv and Daicel are making replacement inflators that will enable dealers to install new air bags in the more than ...

The urgent need to replace more than 65 million potentially deadly air bags won’t be stalled by dire financial reports out of Tokyo on Wednesday about the company that has recalled them, according to ...

In the past decade automotive air bags have saved about 1,600 lives. During the same period, however, air bags have also been responsible for about 50 deaths — mostly of young children and small ...

WASHINGTON The Obama administration is preparing to warn car owners whose air bags have been replaced in the past three years that dangerous counterfeit bags may have been installed, according to auto ...

All of the 43 car passengers who have been killed by air bags were hit by a kind of bag that inflates directly toward the passenger, and no one has been killed by an air bag that deploys upward first, ...

Counterfeit automobile air bags that may not perform as well as a vehicle’s original equipment have been imported and installed in some U.S. cars and trucks, federal officials warned Wednesday. The ...

A University of Arizona professor says improper disposal of unused automobile air bags could pose a health risk. In a scrap yard, the chemicals that inflate air bags may combine with ground water to ...

The urgent need to replace more than 65 million potentially deadly air bags won’t be stalled by dire financial reports out of Tokyo on Wednesday about the company that has recalled them, according to ...