The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration held a public meeting Thursday to discuss the possible recall of 52 million airbags produced by ARC Automotive and Delphi Automotive Systems.

The NHTSA ordered ARC Automotive, Inc. to recall 67 million air bag inflators, but the manufacturer has refused.

In a letter to the NHTSA, ARC said no automaker has found a defect common to all 67 million inflators and no root cause has been identified in the inflator ruptures.

ARC Automotive's pushback of NHTSA's request to recall 67 million airbag inflators that could potentially rupture has some safety advocates thinking of the largest automotive recall in U.S. history.

The agency had called for the recall of ARC air bags used in 50 million vehicles after seven injuries and a death, but faced pushback from automakers.

About 52 million air bag systems manufactured by ARC Automotive and Delphi Automotive are potentially dangerous to vehicle occupants and should be recalled, federal auto safety regulators said ...

NHTSA has investigated ARC inflators since July 2015 after receiving reports of ruptures on two vehicles shortly after the Takata airbag recall began unfolding in 2014.

In response to the agency’s demand, ARC declined to issue a recall and said in a letter in May that it did not believe a defect existed and that in its view NHTSA’s finding was not based on ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration held a public meeting Thursday to discuss the possible recall of 52 million airbags produced by ARC Automotive and Delphi Automotive Systems.