2021 a potential legal battle is brewing with arc refusing to recall such a sweeping number of inflaters manufactured before 2018 67 million inflaters put that number into perspective for me. there are 284 million vehicles in the united states. soso it is a h huge impactct in termsms of the vehicle population in the united states. if this is a recall, of 67 million air bag inflaters, it would be one of the largest ever in the united states. reporter: arc argues just seven incidents in the u.s. over a decade and a half do not support a finding a systemic and prevalent defect exists across this population the air bag inflaters are used by at least a dozen auto makers including general motors, which just announced it is voluntarily recalling nearly one million vehicles equipped with arc inflaters including certain chevrolet traverse, gmc acadia, and buick enclave models, a step they say is out of an abundance of caution as for federal regulators and arc industry experts say
testing with the safety agency itself over 1,000 tests that they never seen this kind of problem before. this really impacts about 18 years though of manufacturing products of this air bag. that is a large portion of time this could impact. in terms of what manufacturers could be impacted, the safety administration not saying. however, some car manufacturers are doing voluntary recalls. general motors is recalling 1 million vehicles. i want to give people what the vehicles r the buick enclave, chevrolet traverse, gmc acadia. the if you purchased those vehicles from 2014 to 2017, they ll be impacted. if you want to get the air bag fixed withen that vehicle, take it to the dealer and they can make the changes. but, you know, this is going to be this is going to be a fight. essentially the company saying we don t see a problem here. the safety administration saying, we have seen it firsthand. is this up for discussion? if they say this is what we ve