Kia 2015 Rio Owner's Manual page 67

Safety features of your vehicle
❈ The actual air bags in the vehicle may
differ from the illustration.
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Side air bags
Side air bags (side impact and/or
curtain air bags) are designed to
inflate when an impact is detected by
side collision sensors depending on
the strength, speed or angles of
impact resulting from a side impact
collision.
Although the front air bags (driver's
and front passenger's air bags) are
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designed to inflate in frontal colli-
sions, they also may inflate in other
types of collisions if the front impact
sensors detect a sufficient frontal
force in another type of impact. Side
impact and curtain air bags are
designed to inflate in certain side
impact collisions. They may inflate in
other type of collisions where a side
force is detected by the sensors.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
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bumps or objects on unimproved
roads or sidewalks, air bags may
deploy. Drive carefully on unim-
proved roads or on surfaces not
designed for vehicle traffic to prevent
unintended air bag deployment.
Air bag non-inflation conditions
• In certain low-speed collisions the
air bags may not deploy. The air
bags are designed not to deploy in
such cases because they may not
provide benefits beyond the pro-
tection of the seat belts in such col-
lisions.
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