Chevrolet 2003 Avalanche Owner's Manual page 68

Passenger Sensing System
If your rearview mirror has one of the indicators pictured
in the following illustrations, your vehicle has a
passenger sensing system. The indicator will be visibie
when you turn your ignition key to START or RUN.
The words ON and OFF or the symbol for on and off,
will be visible on the rearview mirror during the system
check. When the system check is complete, either
the word ON or the word OFF, or the symbol for on or
the symbol for off will be visible. See Passenger Air
Bag Status lndicator on page 3-33. If your rearview
mirror doesn't have either of the indicators pictured, then
your vehicle doesn't have the passenger sensing
system.
Passenger Air Bag Status Indicator
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United States
Passenger Air Bag
Status Indicator
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Canada
The passenger sensing system will turn off the right
front passenger's frontal air bag under certain
conditions. The driver's air bag and the side air bags
are not part of the passenger sensing system.
The passenger sensing system works with sensors that
are part of the right front passenger's seat and safety
belt. The sensors are designed to detect the presence of
a properly-seated occupant and determine if the
passenger's frontal air bag should be enabled (may
inflate) or not.
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they are
restrained in the rear rather than the front seat. General
Motors, therefore, recommends that child restraints be
secured in a rear seat including an infant riding in a
rear-facing infant seat, a child riding in a forward-facing
child seat and an older child riding in a booster seat.
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