The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has paused its plans to issue a massive recall of 50 million faulty air bag inflators made by ARC Automotive, Inc. The agency will conduct further investigations after the auto industry raised concerns about the potential for not all inflators being defective.
U.S. auto safety regulators have backed away from seeking a giant recall of nearly 50 million air bag inflators and will investigate further after the auto industry raised questions about whether all of the inflators are defective. The inflators, made by ARC Automotive, Inc., have been linked to at least seven injuries and two deaths in the U.S. and Canada since 2009. But in a document posted Wednesday in the Federal Register and dated Dec.
13, the agency said it considered comments on a decision from January seeking the recall. The auto industry pointed to technical and engineering differences between ARC inflators in vehicles made by different manufacturers. The comments also raised manufacturing-process variations at different plants that made the ARC inflators. “Given the potential relevance of these issues to the agency's decision making, including the appropriate scope of any recall, further investigation is warranted,” the agency said in the document
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