Did airbag risk distract NHTSA?

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      The article examines whether or not the issues concerning airbags distracted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) from discovering defective ignition switches in General Motors' (GM) automobiles that were recalled. It discusses a campaign of special crash investigations to study airbag performance commissioned by the NHTSA in early 2000s, a March 2007 meeting with NHTSA officials disclosed by GM and the reason cited by the NHTSA for failing to discover the defects.