Two problems related to air bag have been reported for the 2009 Toyota Prius. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
After reading the new york times article (11 Sep 2014) on takata air bags, I found out that our 2009 Toyota Prius was not (yet) subject to recall for the defective takata airbags, even though, according to the nyt many millions of Toyotas had these air bags. I contacted Toyota USA customer support to inquire if our Prius had air bags manufactured by takata. I was informed by Toyota USA that they considered this information as "proprietary" and wold not inform me as to whether or not our vehicle had air bags manufactured by takata and therefore likely to have defective canisters should there ever be an incident that caused the air bags to deploy (or explode, as they case may be). Toyota should be required to inform customers if Toyota has used takata air bags in their vehicles, even if the NHTSA & dot has not yet gotten around to mandating a recall. To me, this seems similar to the gm starter issue for which there was plenty of blame on NHTSA-dot as well as gm. Thank you.
I was struck by a speeding auto so hard that the force of the impact obliterated the entire front end of my vehicle. I suffered serious left knee and left shoulder injuries. Not one takata airbag deployed. Had the airbags functioned properly I might have avoided the injuries to my body. My car was considered a total loss.