Replacement Procedures: Airbags; Atc - BMW SERIE 7 2000 Manual

Airbags
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Deceleration sensors continuously
monitor the physical forces acting upon
the vehicle. In a severe frontal collision,
the gas generators of the driver's airbag
and the front passenger airbag are ig-
nited. However, the passenger-side air-
bag is only triggered if an additional
sensor has recognized that the passen-
ger seat is occupied.
In the event of a severe side impact, the
head protection and side airbags in the
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front and/or rear are triggered.
The airbags located under the marked
covers inflate and unfold in a matter of
a few milliseconds. In this process, they
tear through the designed separation
points of the upholstered covers or
press them out.
Because the inflation process must be
virtually instantaneous, it is necessarily
accompanied by a certain amount of ig-
nition and inflation noise. The gas re-
quired to inflate the airbags is not dan-
gerous, and the smoke caused by it
rapidly dissipates.
The entire process is completed within
fractions of a second.

ATC

ATC
On vehicles with automatic transmis-
sion Adaptive Transmission Control
(ATC) uses a number of factors to cal-
culate the maximally efficient gear. In
this process it monitors your personal
driving style, the situation in which you
are driving, the condition of the road
and the traffic conditions.
ATC recognizes your personal driving
style from the positions and movements
of the gas pedal, declaration when
braking and lateral acceleration through
curves. Four shift characteristics – from
comfort-oriented to performance-ori-
ented – are available for selection by
ATC.
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