Indication Of Fastening The Seat Belts Of The Rear Seats; The Protective Function Of Seat Belts - Seat Mii Electric Owner's Manual

The lamp goes out when the driver and

passenger seat belts are fastened with the
ignition switched on.
Indication of fastening the seat
belts of the rear seats*
Indication of seat belt status in the rear
Fig. 5
seats on the instrument panel display
When the ignition is switched on, the status
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Fig. 5
display of the belts informs the driver
on the instrument panel display whether the
occupants of the rear seats have their seat
belts fastened.
It indicates that the corresponding seat

is empty.
Indicates that the seat is occupied and

the occupant is wearing the seat belt.
The seat belt status flashes for a maximum of
30 seconds when a seat belt in the rear seats
Seat belts
is unfastened while the vehicle is in motion. An
audible warning will also be heard if the vehi-
cle is travelling at over 25 km/h (15 mph).
If a seat belt is fastened or unfastened while
driving in some of the rear seats, the seat belt
status is displayed for approximately 30 sec-
onds. The indication can be hidden by press-
ing the button on the instrument panel.
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The protective function of seat
belts
Drivers with properly worn seat belts
Fig. 6
will not be thrown forward in the event of sud-
den braking.
Properly worn seat belts hold the occupants
in the proper position. They also help prevent
uncontrolled movements that may result in
serious injury and reduce the risk of being
thrown out of the vehicle in case of an acci-
dent.
Vehicle occupants wearing their seat belts
correctly benefit greatly from the ability of
the belts to absorb kinetic energy. In addition,
the front part of your vehicle and other pas-
sive safety features (such as the airbag sys-
tem) are designed to absorb the kinetic ener-
gy released in a collision. Taken together, all
these features reduce the releasing kinetic
energy and consequently, the risk of injury.
This is why it is so important to fasten seat
belts before every trip, even when "just driving
around the corner".
Ensure that your passengers wear their seat
belts as well. Accident statistics have shown
that wearing seat belts is an effective means
of substantially reducing the risk of injury and
improving the chances of survival when in-
volved in a serious accident. Furthermore,
properly worn seat belts improve the protec-
tion provided by airbags in the event of an
accident. For this reason, wearing a seat belt
is required by law in most countries.
Although your vehicle is equipped with air-
bags, the seat belts must be fastened and
worn. The front airbags, for example, are only
triggered in some cases of head-on collision.
The front airbags will not be triggered during
minor frontal or side collisions, rear-end colli-
sions, overturns or accidents in which the air-
bag trigger threshold value in the control unit
is not exceeded.
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