Passenger's Front Airbag And Child Restraint Systems; Driver's Side Front Airbag; Passenger Front Airbag - Fiat 500 Hybrid 2020 Owner's Handbook Manual

occupants body and the structures
which could cause injury. It will deflate
immediately afterwards.
Front airbags are not a replacement of
but complementary to the seat belts,
which you are recommended to always
wear, as specified by law in Europe and
most non-European countries.
In the event of an impact, someone not
wearing a seat belt could move forward
and come into contact with a bag
which is still opening. The protection
offered by the bag is compromised in
these circumstances.
The front airbags may fail to deploy
in the following cases: frontal impact
against highly deformable objects not
involving the front surface of the car
(e.g. wing collision against guard rail);
in the case of the car wedging under
other cars or protective barriers (e.g.
under trucks or guard rails).
Failure to activate in the conditions
described above is due to the fact
that they may not provide any
additional protection compared with
seat belts, so their activation would
be inappropriate. In these cases,
non-deployment does not indicate a
system malfunction.
The front airbags (driver, passenger,
driver's knee bags) are designed
and calibrated to protect front seat
passengers wearing seat belts. Their
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volume at the moment of maximum
inflation fills most of the space between
the steering wheel and the driver,
between the lower post guard and the
knees on passenger side and between
the dashboard and the passenger.
The airbags are not deployed in the
event of minor frontal impacts (for
which the restraining action of the seat
belts is sufficient). Seat belts must
always be worn. In the event of a
frontal collision, they ensure the correct
positioning of the occupant.

Driver's side front airbag

100)
This consists of an instantly inflating
bag contained in a special recess A in
the centre of the steering wheel fig. 77.
76

Passenger front airbag

This consists of an instantly
inflating bag contained in a special
compartment in the dashboard fig. 77:
this bag has a larger volume than the
driver's.
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Passenger's front airbag and child
restraint systems
101) 102)
Rearward facing child restraint systems
must NEVER be fitted on the front seat
with an active passenger side air bag
since in the event of an impact the air
bag activation may cause fatal injuries
to the transported child.
ALWAYS comply with the instructions
on the label stuck on both sides of the
sun visor (fig. 78).
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