[iontheball]

The article only talks about safety air bags not deploying but I bet that is not the proximate cause of the crashes. Anyone who has tried to steer a car with power steering when the engine is dead knows it requires a huge amount of muscle and may be beyond the strength of many drivers. If this occurs in a fast moving situation where you need to maneuver, you will likely crash. It is then that the ignition switch fiasco is compounded ten fold when the air bags also fail to deploy. It seems to me they could build in a capacitor to provide the backup current necessary to deploy the bags if the battery current should fail.

[jazusamo]

You’re correct and previous articles have focused on the loss of power steering and brakes, GM will rue the day they blew off this recall.