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child to ride. The front seat is not the safest
place for a child in a forward-facing child safe-
ty seat . It can be a very dangerous place for an
infant or a child in a rearward-facing seat.
The Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
has been certified to comply with the Require-
ments of United States Federa l Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 as applicable at the time
your veh icle was manufactured.
The Standard requires the front airbag on the
passenger side to be turned off ("sup-
pressed") if a child up to about one year of
age restra ined in one of the rear-facing or for-
ward-facing infant restra ints listed in Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with w hich
the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
was certified has been installed o n the front
passenger seat. For a list ing of the child re-
straints that were used to certify compliance
with the US Safety Standard
r::tv page 134 .
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in the in-
st rument panel te lls you when the front Ad-
vanced Airbag on the passenger side has bee n
turned off by the e lectronic control unit .
Each t ime you tur n on the ignition, the
PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG OFF
light will come on for a
few seconds and :
- will stay on if the front passenger seat is not
occup ied,
- will stay on if there is a small child o r child
rest raint on the front passenger seat,
- will go off if the front passenger seat is oc-
cup ied by an adult as registe red by the
weight-sensing mat
r::tv page 121, Monitor-
ing the Advanced Airbag System.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
when the control un it detects a total weight
on the front passenger sea t that requires the
fro nt airbag to be tu rned off.
If the total we ight on the front passenger
seat is mo re than that of a typical 1 year-o ld
child but less than the weight of a sma ll
ad ult , the front airbag o n the passenge r side
can dep loy (the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on). If t he
PASSENGER
A irbag sys tem
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AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on, the
front airbag on the passenger side has not
been t urned off by the elect ronic contro l un it
and can deploy if the control unit senses an
impact that meets the cond itions stored in its
memory .
For example , the airb ag may deplo y
if:
- a small ch ild t ha t is heav ier t han a typical 1
year -old chi ld is on the fron t passenger seat
(regard less of whether the child is in one of
the child safety seats listed
r:!>
page 134),
or
- a child who has outgrown chi ld restraints is
on the front passenger seat .
If the fron t passenger a irbag is turned off, t he
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on in
the instr ument pane l and stays on.
The front airbag on the passenge r side may
not
deploy (the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not illum inat e a nd stay lit) even if a
small ad ult or teenager, or a passenger who is
not sitting uprig ht with their back against a
non-recl ined backrest w ith their feet on the
vehicle floor in front of the seat is on the front
passenger seat
r:!>
page 94, Proper seating po-
sition for the driver .
If the front passenger airbag dep loys, the
Federa l Standard requ ires the airbag to meet
the "low risk" dep loyment criteria t o reduce
the risk of injury th rough interact ion with the
airbag . "Low risk" dep loymen t occ urs in those
crashes that ta ke place at lower dece le rat ions
as defined in the e lectronic control unit
r::tv page 12 2, PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF ligh t .
Always remember, a child safety seat or infant
ca rrie r installed on the front seat may be
stru ck and knoc ked ou t of po sit ion by t he rap -
idly inflat ing passenger 's airbag in a front al
collision. The airbag could g reat ly reduce the
effectiveness of the chi ld restrai nt and even
seriously injure the child during inflation.
A
WARNING
A child in a rearward-fac ing ch ild safety
seat installed on the front passenger seat
-
will be ser ious ly injured and can be killed if
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