Kia CERATO 2018 Owner's Manual page 88

Safety features of your vehicle
• Frontal air bags are not designed to
inflate in rear collisions, because oc‐
cupants are moved backward by the
force of the impact. In this case, in‐
flated air bags would not be able to
provide any additional benefit.
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• Front air bags may not inflate in side
impact collisions, because occupants
move to the direction of the collision,
and thus in side impacts, frontal air
bag deployment would not provide
additional occupant protection.
However, side or curtain air bags may
inflate depending on the severity of
impact.
• In a slant or angled collision, the force
of impact may direct the occupants in
a direction where the air bags would
not be able to provide any additional
benefit, and thus the sensors may
not deploy any air bags.