Automotive safety systems supplier Takata will initiate steps to respond to public safety issues raised by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) over faulty airbag inflators.
The move comes close on the heels of a probe launched by the NHTSA into the defective airbag inflators.
The initiative directly and preemptively addressed the issues raised by ruptures in certain Takata airbag inflators, the company said in a statement.
Takata chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada said, "We have worked extensively with NHTSA and our automaker customers over the past year to collect and analyze a multitude of testing data in an effort to support actions that work for all parties and, most importantly, advance driver safety.
"We are committed to continuing to work closely with NHTSA and our automaker customers to do everything we can to advance the safety of drivers."
Takata assured its cooperation with all future regulatory actions and proceedings that would come under the investigation conducted by the safety agency.
As part of a consent order that Takata subsidiary TK Holdings has entered with NHTSA, the firm had filed four defect information reports. The reports detail the recalls contemplated by vehicle manufacturers under the supervision of NHTSA in connection with the inflators.
The "over-aggressive" deployment of some inflators made by Takata has been attributed to persistent conditions of high absolute humidity over years, coupled with possibilities like manufacturing glitches.
Takata claimed to have devoted its resources to researchers like Fraunhofer ICT to look into the airbag snag.
