coelurosauravus t1_isa081y wrote on October 14, 2022 at 11:54 AM

Reply to comment by Billy1121 in TIL the first confirmed victim of Takata airbags was 18y/o Parham. As she drove around a car park, she lightly bumped another vehicle making the airbag inflate, sending metal pieces at such tremendous force that one hit the teen’s neck slicing open her carotid artery. She bled to death in her seat by ahm713

Basically everyone was affected, but it was to what degree. Honda was the most affected. At one point, the team I was on just regionally within our state started out looking for about 2,000 alphas(highest risk), then it ballooned to about 10,000 phase two vehicles a little less than a year later. We never got close to all affected Hondas by the time the pandemic hit.

The scale of resources required to reach everyone was expensive for Honda and it was stunning to encounter people who really did not care or were utterly hostile to you visiting. It would not surprise me if Honda has spent 4-5 billion dollars to this point