More than 30 million US drivers don't know if they're at risk from a rare but dangerous airbag blast

DETROIT — More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially deadly threat: Airbag inflators that in rare cases can explode in a collision and spew shrapnel.

Few of them know it.

And because of a dispute between federal safety regulators and an airbag parts manufacturer, they aren't likely to find out anytime soon.

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