Passive Safety - Ferrari 458 Italia Owner's Manual

Passive safety

The passive safety system has been designed to reduce the risk and
severity of injury if an accident occurs.
The vehicle is equipped with the following seat belts:
- 3-point driver's seat belt with pretensioner and load limiting
device (see page 54)
- 3-point passenger seat belt with pretensioner and load limiting
device (see page 54).
Warning
Auxiliary safety systems are not a substitute for seat belts. All
occupants must always wear a seat belt. Correct use of the
seat belts combined with use of the auxiliary safety systems
provides optimal protection to the occupants in various types of
collisions.
The vehicle also has the following auxiliary occupant protection
system components (see also page 60 "Auxiliary occupant
protection systems"):
- front driver's airbag (for operating functions see page 61)
- front passenger airbag (for operating functions see page 61)
- driver's head protection side airbag (head bag) (for operating
functions see page 66)
- passenger head protection side airbag (head bag) (for operating
functions see page 66)
- seats (see page 160)
- deformable body
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- occupant protection system ECU
- ECU auxiliary sensors
- instrument panel warning light (see page 61)
- inertia switch.
Warning
The protective action of the airbags is always integrated with
the seat belts and the pretensioners. The compulsory use of the
seat belt is provided by the national regulations (in Italy, for
example, by the Codice della Strada, i.e. Traffic Regulations).
Deformable body
The deformable body absorbs shock and distributes it over the
entire structure of the vehicle allowing progressive deceleration.
The passenger compartment structure, on the other hand, has been
designed to provide maximum resistance without undergoing
deformation in order to guarantee a protective survival cell for the
occupants.