The automobile giant Toyota in Japan has reportedly recalled its 650,000 cars over faulty airbags issue. This can be seen as an extension of similar occurrence which took place last year. The first recall was in April 2013 which included 1,830,000 cars traded in foreign soils.
According to Toyota, the passenger airbag inflators of the recalled vehicles were prepared from faulty parts. The company through a statement expressed that inappropriately made propellant wafers runs the risk of rupturing the inflator causing the passenger airbag at the front to emerge abnormally during a crash.
Japan based supplier, Takata Corporation are the manufacturers of the airbags. Toyota expressed that the recall was extended to other cars as Takata has not given the entire list of the infected serial numbers. In totality as much as 2796000 cars were recalled on the airbag issue. Shino Yamada, a company representative said that Toyota has issued 22 recalls internationally this year.
The public attention has shifted towards the auto recall. The scene in US is particularly interesting where General Motors has been criticized for its ignition switch flaw service linked to 13 deaths. The company has recalled 15.6 million vehicles internationally. This also includes 2.6 million vehicles related to ignition switch fault causing the vehicles to unexpectedly shut off and invalid safety features.
Ignition switch recall was noted amongst the most fatal in the recent years. According to the regulators extra fatalities will be linked with flaw with further investigations.
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