According to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA), Porsche has spent a year working out that it needs to recall certain 2022-2023 Porsche Taycan vehicles due to the possibility of the passenger airbag being mistakenly disabled.
Modern cars have sensors in the seat that deactivate the passenger airbag when nobody is sitting there, so if there is an accident, it doesn't go off needlessly and end up costing even more to repair the vehicle. However, if there is someone sitting in the passenger seat during a crash and the airbag doesn't go off, well, that's not good at all.
In the additional documentation with the recall notice, we see that Porsche became ...
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