Kia Sportage 2008 Owner's Manual page 81

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Knowing your vehicle
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• In this case, the front airbags do
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not provide protection, since they
would instantaneously inflate and
deflate while the occupants were
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moving away from the front
airbags.
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• Front airbags are also not general-
ly designed to deploy in side
impact collisions because occu-
pants are moving sideways ad not
forward into the front airbags.
However, side or curtain airbags
are designed to inflate in side
impacts depending on the intensi-
ty, vehicle speed and angles of
impact.
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• In a slant or angled collision, the
force of impact may direct the
occupants in a direction between
the front and side airbags, and
thus the sensors may not deploy
any airbags.
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