US safety officials as well as Takata officials have said that exposure to humidity over time has been a factor in the incorrect air bag deployments. Seven people have been killed in Honda cars with Takata air bags, six of them in the United States. The crash in the most recently reported death, of a 22-year-old woman in Louisiana, occurred two days before a recall notice arrived in the mail from Honda, according to Kenneth St. Pé, the attorney for the woman's family. Honda said its dealers have been replacing air bag inflators at a rate of 50,000 per week, and that the pace of air bag inflators replaced will accelerate. REUTERS