The number of vehicles on U.S. roads with potentially defective Takata airbags appears to be less than half the 34 million initially estimated by federal regulators, according to a Reuters analysis of recall records submitted to the watchdog and confirmed by the car companies.About 16.2 million vehicles -- roughly one out of every 16 cars on U.S. highways -- may have one or two defective airbags supplied by Japan’s Takata Corp., vehicle manufacturers confirmed to Reuters. How many times those vehicles may have to be repaired is still unclear.
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