This Terrifying Exploding Canister Is The Reason For The Massive Takata Airbag Recall

This is the root cause behind the Takata airbag scandal that has seen tens of millions of cars recalled across the world, and that has already caused almost 20 deaths.

Moisture can make it into the airbag and react with the ammonium nitrate that Takata uses to create the airbag inflation explosion, meaning that when the bag fires in a crash, the explosion is much, much bigger than it’s meant to be. It blows the gas canister apart and fires shrapnel into the cabin.

As you can see in the video above, it would be like crashing face-first into a frag grenade. The worst thing is that it could be years before all the affected cars are repaired…