Takata Corp.’s bankruptcy filing last month was meant to draw a line under the auto industry’s biggest safety recall, but last week’s announcement of more airbag inflator recalls suggests automakers could face fresh liabilities in the future.
In late 2015, U.S. regulators gave Takata until the end of 2019 to prove that its replacement airbag inflators — which add a drying agent to combat moisture that can set off the ammonium nitrate compound in an inflator, with potentially lethal results — are also safe.
