FOR more than a decade, millions of British motorists have been driving cars with a potentially deadly component right in front of their face. The vehicle makers and the government know about it, but there is little sense of urgency to fix the problem, and a fog of confusion about who should take responsibility.
The issue concerns a part which you would think is there to protect you – the airbag. You might not have heard of Takata, but the company’s faulty safety kit resulted in the biggest recall in the history of the car industry, with around 100 million vehicles affected.
According to data released to Auto Express by the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), almost 5.3 million of these were in the UK, so there’s a good chance that you’ve
