{"version":"1.1.0","producer":"fm.getcarcurious","layer":"official","episode":{"title":"The Conspiracy to Conspire among the automotive industry","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/the-conspiracy-to-conspire-among-the-automotive-industry","audioUrl":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1908130/episodes/19450082-the-conspiracy-to-conspire-among-the-automotive-industry.mp3","description":"Send us Fan MailJoin the team for discussions of conspiracies in the auto world, both proven and unproven (at least not yet). Some are real conspiracy theories and others may just be Neil's own insights. Support the showThanks for listening, give us a review and check us out on YouTube -SFJ4x4 and visit our website to grab some great gear or products for your Jeep, SFJ4x4.com. Don't forget, you can email Jeffc@sfj4x4.com for special content requests, blind react videos, suggestions, special guests, or general questions. 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And what's so mind numbing is the sheer volume that you're saying, you know, 60 million plus vehicles and the deliberate nature at which they falsified, you know, their experience as being able to provide these vehicles. We're talking about 2001 and here as things are still, and again, I don't know the statutes of limitations and whatnot. ... faulty supply or inflators were roughly 2001 to 2015.","canonicalId":"term:airbag-inflators","priority":0.85,"confidence":0.9,"source":"gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"An airbag inflator is the component that generates the gas needed to rapidly inflate an airbag during a crash. In the Takata case, the inflators were linked to chemical and manufacturing problems that could cause them to fail unpredictably.","simplifiedExplanation":"An airbag inflator is the “pump” inside the airbag that makes it inflate fast. 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