This year may forever be known as the year of the recalls. General Motors has been the biggest culprit, with over 70 recalls to date, but there have been plenty of other notable recalls competing for our attention.
Now, CNN Money is reporting there have been 544 recalls in 2014, or about two a day so far. Those recalls have afflicted 52 million vehicles, or about one in every five on U.S. roads. That easily eclipses the previous record of 30.8 million units set in 2004. With ten weeks remaining in the year, it’s conceivable that this year will double the previous record.
While it’s easy to chalk up the plethora of recalls to falling reliability, there’s also another reason recalls are on the rise. “We all want our cars to do far more than they did in the past,” Stericycle VP Mike Rozembajgier told CNN. “It takes a lot of gadgets to make that happen, and that adds to complexity.”
With growing demand for more and more technology in our cars, it seems likely that 2014 will be far from the last year of huge recalls.
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This article originally appeared on Autoblog.