Honda Audit Discovers That Takata Was Doctoring Airbag Test Data For Years

Takata Corp., the airbag supplier behind the industry’s largest ever recall, routinely manipulated results of airbag inflator tests reported to Honda Motor Co., according to an ongoing audit commissioned by the supplier and its biggest customer.

Takata engineers removed some test results to artificially reduce variability in airbag inflator performance, Brian O’Neill, a former Insurance Institute for Highway Safety president, said in a phone interview. Takata and Honda jointly hired O’Neill to begin the audit in late October, days before Honda first announced findings of data manipulation.

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MDarringer - 7/19/2016 10:17:02 AM

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Some people at Takata deserve the death penalty.

HenryN - 7/20/2016 1:21:00 AM

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Yes their head honcho should do the Harakiri live, then a GM scapegoat follows suit with a painkiller OD.

MDarringer - 7/20/2016 9:56:57 AM

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The honcho addicted to painkillers was at Toyota if I recall correctly.