{"id":295,"date":"2015-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/the-science-behind-potential-airbag-failures\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:34:14","slug":"the-science-behind-potential-airbag-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/the-science-behind-potential-airbag-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"The science behind potential airbag failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been said about the Takata airbag recall. It has been reported that nearly one in seven vehicles on the road in the United States could be potentially affected. This translates into more than 30 million cars, trucks and vans across the country. In light of the debate over who would be responsible for injuries stemming from potentially defective airbags, not much has been said about what makes them dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/06\/airbags\/396854\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent article published in The Atlantic<\/a> does a great job of describing this, and we will highlight it through this post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the danger, and suspected defect can be traced to the chemical compound used to inflate the airbags that are supposed to protect a driver in the event of a crash. Prior to 2001, airbags were inflated by using tetrazole; but in 2002 Takata changed the compound to ammonium nitrate. Takata reportedly defended this change by saying it was \u201csafe and effective for use in airbag inflators when properly engineered and manufactured.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/the-science-behind-potential-airbag-failures\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading The science behind potential airbag failures\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been said about the Takata airbag recall. It has been reported that nearly one in seven vehicles on the road in the United States could be potentially affected. This translates into more than 30 million cars, trucks and vans across the country. In light of the debate over who would be responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defective-products","tag-defective-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The science behind potential airbag failures &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; July 20, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The science behind potential airbag failures - Defective Products - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/the-science-behind-potential-airbag-failures\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The science behind potential airbag failures &#8212; 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