In a filing Tuesday on its Web site, the agency said it had seven complaints from owners who said either the driver's air bag or both front air bags deployed during normal driving.
But it cranked up controls so that nitrogen dioxide pollution, which has been linked to asthma, bronchitis, heart attacks and possibly lung cancer, was only a small fraction of what it would be during normal driving.
Similar to the 2D histograms, the transition matrices are also very similar between the NH and HL groups during normal driving.
By making Blind Spot Monitoring standard, as part of a package of features, and making mirrors all one color, a gloss black, for all exterior colors and trims, Ford reduced the possible variants of exterior mirrors to 25. Blind Spot Monitoring, which Ford calls its Blind Spot Information System, uses radar to help detect vehicles in blind spots during normal driving.
Earlier this year, however, members of Germany's Green party challenged the government on the discrepancy between emissions in the test environment and during normal driving.
Last month, the automaker recalled about 172,000 2013-14 Chevrolet Cruzes equipped with 1.4 liter turbocharged gasoline engines to replace a right front axle half shaft that can fracture and separate without warning during normal driving.
The so-called defeat device — installed in at least 482,000 vehicles in the U.S. and 11 million worldwide — adjusted diesel engine performance during testing conditions, then allowed up to 40 times the limit of smog-creating nitrogen oxide pollution during normal driving.
The driver-side air bags on 115 Oldsmobile and Buick cars have inflated spontaneously when the car was started or during normal driving conditions, and 268,000 cars in the 1995 and 1996 model years are vulnerable to the problem, General Motors said yesterday.
[C2.] G.M. to Replace 268,000 Air Bags The driver-side air bags on 268,000 Oldsmobiles and Buicks are vulnerable to inflating when the car is started or during normal driving condition, General Motors said.
Again though, typical values during normal driving are much less extreme.
