Stock Incentive Plan	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Disclosure Of Compensation Related Costs Sharebased Payments [Abstract]
Stock Incentive Plan	14. STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN Eligible employees and non-employee directors of the Company participate in Autoliv, Inc.1997 Stock Incentive Plan (the Plan) and received Autoliv stock-based awards which include stock options (SOs), restricted stock units (RSUs) and performance shares (PSs). In connection with the Veoneer spin-off, each outstanding Autoliv stock-based award as of June 29, 2018 (the Distribution Date) was converted to a stock award that has underlying shares of both Autoliv and Veoneer common shares. For further information about the conversion, see the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. The Company recorded approximately $1.1 million stock-based compensation expense in continuing operations related to RSUs and PSs for the three month period ended March 31, 2019. During the three month period ended March 31, 2018, the Company recorded $2.3 million of stock-based compensation expense in continuing operations related to RSUs and PSs.

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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