Airbag incident Honda will replace airbags across the country

Airbag incident Honda will replace airbags across the country

Honda Motor Co. noted it will replace air bags across the country in case customers claim, even though it is at this time limiting its newest recall of vehicles with Takata air bags to as much as 2.8 million cars sold or registered in high-humidity states. The replacement program for owners serious about their safety was mentioned in documents published recently by U.S. safety regulators. However Honda doesn't intend to notify customers outside the recall regions.

Honda will even give loaner cars “as acceptable,” the automaker said in a Nov. 6 response to regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are produced by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker recently said that it was limiting a number of recalls to cars sold or ever registered in locations with “high absolute humidity,” since moisture is thought to be the cause in the defect.

With the affirmation on this report, there are now five deaths connected with the faulty airbags. Reported by The New York Times, a pregnant woman in Malaysia was killed on July 27 in a 2003 Honda City while she crashed into another car, and the inflator ruptured. This was the first reported case outside of the US.

Behind the frustration is carmakers' reluctance to attempt to costly repairs while they still puzzle over why are many bags explode and the U.S. safety regulators' incapability to press in them for full-scale recalls.