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Takata Airbags Research Paper

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On November 4th, 2008, Japanese conglomerate Honda Motor Co., Ltd. recalls 4,000 Accord and Civic automobiles due to the detection of a potential defect in their airbags, which were manufactured by automotive parts supplier Takata Corporation. Since then, over 31 millions automobiles containing Takata technology have been recalled (Timeline: Takata Air Bag Recalls). Over the last 9 years, there have been 11 deaths and around 180 injures attributed to the defects in Takata airbags (Takata Airbag Recall - Everything You Need to Know).

What initially sparked my interest in this controversy is an article by CNN Money titled, “Takata airbag victims looked like they had been shot or stabbed,” (Isidore) documenting several fatal accidents caused by a defect in an exploding airbag. For instance, a minor car accident in California back in September of 2013 turned out to tragic for the driver, as shrapnel from an exploding Takata airbag cut through his neck and fatally wounded him.

I found this accident highly alarming, as I am currently working towards receiving my driver’s license. I also consider myself to be an avid automobile enthusiast for the better part of the last decade, ever since my father purchased a Mercedes-Benz GL-Class. Taking these …show more content…

This means that the defective airbags produced by factory F1make up 0.5% of the total number of devices, which includes both defective and non-defective airbags. Factory F2 produces 25% of the total number of airbags and has a 5.5% defective rate, meaning its defective products account for 1.375% of the total number of airbags. Based on the equation for the probability distribution for airbag manufacturing, (12)n, and the equation for the rate of defects,y=(10-9n)100, we can create the following generalization regarding the probability that an airbag is from factory n and it is defective:

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