Quest to save a few dollars per air bag led to a deadly crisis
GM supplier Autoliv recalls how it was asked to match Takata's cheaper design in the late 1990s or risk losing carmaker's business
New York
IN THE late 1990s, General Motors got an unexpected and enticing offer. A little-known Japanese supplier, Takata, had designed a much cheaper automotive air bag.
GM turned to its air bag supplier - the Swedish-American company Autoliv - and asked it to match the cheaper design or risk losing the carmaker's business, according to Linda Rink, who was a senior scientist at Autoliv assigned to the GM account at the time.
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