Sixty Million Car Bombs: Inside Takata’s Air Bag Crisis

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Margaret Cronin Fisk

Jeff Plungis

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Exploding Air Bags and the Biggest Auto Recall Ever

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How the company’s failures led to lethal products and the biggest auto recall in history.

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