WASHINGTON: Japan's Takata said it would redesign some driver-side airbag inflators, in the latest chapter of a global auto parts scandal linked to six deaths and the recall of millions of vehicles.

In prepared testimony to be delivered to the US Congress on Tuesday, Kevin Kennedy, executive vice president at Takata's American arm TK Holdings, said the company is pushing ahead to replace faulty airbag inflators, after US auto safety regulators ordered the recall of nearly 34 million vehicles.

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