Owners of more than 300,000 Hondas have yet to get their air bags repaired, despite warnings from the automaker and regulators that the inflators have an extremely high chance of rupturing and causing injury or even death. Last week authorities said one of those airbags, equipped with a Takata inflator, ruptured and killed a California woman, adding urgency to the search for the noncompliant vehicles. About 69 million Takata inflators have been recalled due to possible rupture. In June, government regulators said testing showed that inflators in 313,000 older Hondas and Acuras had as high as a 50 per cent chance of rupturing in a crash. The regulators told owners of the cars to stop driving...
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