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- The Advanced Airbag System can deploy
in accordance with the .,low risk" option
for 3- and 6-year-old children under the
U.S. Federal Standard if a child with elec-
trical capacitance greater than the com-
bined capacitance of a typical one-year
old infant restrained in one of the for-
ward facing or rearward-facing child
seats with which your vehicle was certi-
fied is on the front passenger seat and
the other conditions for airbag deploy-
ment are met.
- Accident statistics have shown that chil-
dren are generally safer in the rear seat
area than in the front seating position.
- For their own safety, all children, espe-
cially 12 years and younger, should al-
ways ride in the back properly restrained
for their age and size.
Advanced front airbag system
Your vehicle is equipped with a front Advanced
Airbag System in compliance with United
States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
208 as applicable at the time your vehicle was
manufactured.
The front Advanced Airbag System supple-
ments the safety belts to provide additional
protection for the driver's and front passeng-
er's heads and upper bodies in frontal crashes.
The airbags inflate only in frontal impacts
when the vehicle deceleration is high enough.
The front Advanced Airbag System for the
front seat occupants is not a substitute for
your safety belts. Rather, it is part of the over-
all occupant restraint system in your vehicle.
Always remember that the airbag system can
only help to protect you, if you are sitting up-
right, wearing your safety belt and wearing it
properly . This is why you and your passengers
must always be properly restrained, not just
because the law requires you to be .
The Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
has been certified to meet the "low risk" re-
quirements for 3 and 6 year-old children on
the passenger side and very small adults on
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the driver side. The low risk deployment crite-
ria are intended to help reduce the risk of in-
jury through interaction with the front airbag
that can occur, for example, by being too
close to the steering wheel and instrument
panel when the airbag inflates.
In addition, the system has been certified to
comply with the "suppression" requirements
of the Safety Standard, to turn off the front
airbag for infants 12 months old and younger
who are restrained on the front passenger
seat in child restraints that are listed in the
Standard
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page 175, Child restraints and
Advanced front airbag system.
"Suppression " requires the front airbag on the
passenger side to be turned off if:
- a child up to about one year of age is re-
strained on the front passenger seat in one
of the rear-facing or forward-facing infant
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your vehicle was
certified. For a listing of the child restraints
that were used to certify your vehicle's com-
pliance with the US Safety Standard
¢ page 175,
- When a person is detected on the front pas-
senger seat that has an electrical capaci-
tance that is more than the total electrical
capacitance of a child that is about 1 year
old restrained in one of the rear-facing or
forward -facing infant restraints (listed in
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208
with which the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle was certified), the front airbag
on the passenger side may or may not de-
ploy.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
when the electronic control unit detects a to-
tal electrical capacitance on the front passen-
ger seat that requires the front airbag to be
turned off. If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on, the front airbag on
the passenger side has not been turned off by
the control unit and can deploy if the control
unit senses an impact that meets the condi -
tions stored in its memory .
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