NEW YORK – U.S. auto safety regulators said Tuesday there are still about 19 million faulty Takata Corp. air bag inflators in U.S. cars and they need to be fixed.
The latest numbers from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show 19.2 million vehicles in the country are equipped with 23.4 million Takata inflators, with about 4 million cars having a defective air bag on both the driver’s and passenger’s side, according to an agency official.
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