Passenger Sensing System - Chevrolet Malibu 2005 Owner's Manual

Passenger Sensing System

If your instrument panel has one of the indicators
pictured in the following illustrations, then your vehicle
has a passenger sensing system. The passenger airbag
status indicator on the instrument panel will be visible
when you turn your ignition key to ON or START.
The word ON and the word OFF or the symbol for on
and the symbol for off, will be visible during the system
check. If you use remote start to start your vehicle
from a distance, if equipped, you may not see 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
Airbag Status Indicator on page 3-35.
Passenger Airbag
Status Indicator –
United States
1-70
Passenger Airbag
Status Indicator –
Canada
The passenger sensing system will turn off the right
front passenger's frontal airbag under certain conditions.
The driver's airbag and the side airbags 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. The
sensors are designed to detect the presence of a
properly-seated occupant and determine if the
passenger's frontal airbag 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 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.
Your vehicle has a rear seat that will accommodate a
rear-facing child restraint. A label on your sun visor says,
"Never put a rear-facing child seat in the front." This
is because the risk to the rear-facing child is so great, if
the airbag deploys.