Nissan says Takata air bag deployed abnormally in Japan crash

This is a very meaningful and proper disclosure. It is not to place blame on any company or one individual, but to help proceed to better safety standards based upon reality (experience) and not just lab or field tests. Such openness is to the credit of both the auto and the air bag makers.

Nothing is perfect and 100% guarantee-able.

It may be time for automakers and airbag makers to consider periodic "replacement" of bags after a period of lets say 3 or 5 years. That will allow for any new and better bags to be installed.

It will be no different from the timing belts, the batteries or even the tires. In this case it means "safety".

Unlike legalists that want to make new laws to have this done, it should be a normally accepted standard for all automakers.

The driver’s left cheek was lightly burned though it was unclear if the injury was caused by the inflator exploding, the spokesman said. In Japan, the driving seat is on the right-hand side of the car.

What else could have been the cause...was he smoking, was there a lightning strike at the exact time of the incident? How are we to prove it was the heat from the exploding air bag? It looks like he can't prove his burn is related to the explosion to me. Now, if cars were computer controlled to brake automatically instead of running into things, these events would never happen. Nobody would have to prove anything.

kazetsukai: "Nothing is perfect and 100% guarantee-able."

It's apparently guaranteed you stand a chance of dying from a car which uses a Takada airbag. It's also guaranteed that there would be no more Takada airbag problems if companies finally stopped using them altogether, which they obviously need to do.

I am going to go out on a limb here I would bet that THERE ARE cases of these air bags exploding & they are not being reported or no is looking at what is really happening

This Takata debacle just keeps getting better and better. It would be a lot quicker to list the automobile firms who haven't been impacted by this disaster. Talk about being shackled to a corpse.

Every time I see a little Japanese person, usually a woman, sitting almost right up against the steering wheel I wonder what happens if they hit something and the airbag deployed. I would think that they would suffer worse injuries than the usual chemical burns from the bag deploying.

I've received a letter recently from Honda advising me that my Jazz may need to be taken in for a replacement air bags as they could potentially shower the occupants with shrapnel in the event of a crash. Lovely.