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7.8 million cars on us roads have an airbag made by Takata corporation they can explode when activated rather than deploying properly and sometimes a metal piece will be thrown out like a piece of shrapnel the company blames moisture during manufacture and in the cars driving environment from making the igniter and propellant unstable now to find out if your car is one of the 54 models of one of these airbags go to safer car gov or call the hotline at triple 8327 4236 have your car's vin number handy know that you cannot deactivate a driver's side air bag but your dealer may tell you to cease carrying passengers in the front seat of an affected car until the airbag is replaced it pays to double check if your car has an air bag with a potentially explosive problem more realities of modern driving revealed now at cnet on cars.com click on smarter driver