Automakers embraced Takata’s cheaper technology almost 20 years ago despite signs that it was unsafe. The airbags are now at the center of the auto industry’s biggest recall. Linda Rink was a senior scientist in the late 1990s at the Swedish company Autoliv, which supplied airbags to General Motors at the time. “General Motors told us they were going to buy Takata’s inflaters unless we could make a cheaper one,” Ms. Rink said. “That set off a big panic on how to compete.”
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