Meanings of defective airbags in English

Earlier on Wednesday, Honda announced the recall plan due to defective airbags.

U.S. safety regulators have said automakers are responsible for replacing defective airbags no matter what happens to Takata.

Given the scale of the task, suppliers have just shy of two years to progressively replace all defective airbags made by the Japanese group.

Five fatalities had so far been linked to the defective airbags, which sent shards of metal into the front passenger seat, the BBC reported.

The new sponsor will not be liable for these inflators, which use ammonium nitrate, the volatile chemical compound at the root of the defective airbags.

Boies was appointed in 2015 to serve on the steering committee in litigation over General Motors' ignition switch defect and Takata Corp's allegedly defective airbags.

All in all, more than 13.2 million cars and motorcycles with the defective airbags have been recalled in the United States.

So far, only 63 per cent of affected cars have been fixed in Australia, and 2.3 million drivers still have defective airbags in their vehicles.