Kia CERATO Owner's Manual page 80

Safety features of your vehicle
Side and curtain air bags (if equipped)
❈ The actual air bags in the vehicle
may differ from the illustration.
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Side and curtain air bags are designed
to inflate when an impact is detected
by side impact sensors depending on
the severity of impact resulting from
side collision.
Although the front air bags (driver's
and front passenger's air bags) are de‐
signed to inflate only in frontal colli‐
sions, they also may inflate in other
types of collisions if the front impact
sensors detect a sufficient impact. Side
air bags (side and/or curtain air bags)
are designed to inflate only in side im‐
pact collisions, but they may inflate in
other collisions if the side impact sen‐
sors detect a sufficient impact.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
bumps or objects on unimproved roads
or sidewalks, air bags may deploy. Drive
carefully on unimproved roads or on
surfaces not designed for vehicle traffic
to prevent unintended air bag deploy‐
ment.
NOTICE
n If equipped with rollover sen‐
sor
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Also, the side and curtain air bags
are designed to inflate when a roll‐
over is detected by a rollover sensor.
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 protection of the
seat belts in such collisions.