Oldsmobile 2003 Silhouette Owner's Manual page 33

or the safety belts!
With safety belts, you slow down as the vehicle does.
You get more time to stop. You stop over more distance,
and your strongest bones take the forces. That's why
safety belts make such good sense.
A:
Air bags are in many vehicles today and will
be in most of them in the future. But they are
supplemental systems only; so they work with
safety belts
-
not instead of them. Every air bag
system ever offered for sale has required the use
of safety belts. Even if you're in a vehicle that
has air bags, you still have to buckle up to get the
most protection. That's true not
only
in frontal
collisions, but especially in side and other collisions.
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