Publication Date: December 10, 2014 Publication: Los Angeles Daily Journal Authors: Hrag Kouyoumjian and Brian Kabateck The automotive world is under siege as unrelenting media coverage exposes more details about a massive, worldwide, recall involving defective airbags. The recall is unique because it involves products made exclusively to promote and ensure safety. Unfortunately for the Japanese airbag manufacturing company Takata Corporation, its safety products are allege to do just the opposite. Takata failed to protect its consumers by designing, producing, and supplying automobile manufacturers across the globe with defective airbags. Takata’s airbags were installe