Audi A7 Sportback 2014 Owner's Manual page 153

Child restraints on the front seat - some
important things to know
.. Be sure to read the important informat ion
and heed the WARNINGS for important de-
tails about chi ldren and Advanced Airbags
~ page 175.
Even though your vehicle is equipped with an
Advanced Airbag System, make certain that
a ll children, especially those 12 years and
younger, always ride in the back seat properly
restrained for their age and size. The airbag
on the passenger side makes the front seat a
potentially dangerous place for a child to ride .
The front seat is not the safest place fo r a
chi ld in a fo rward-facing chi ld seat. It can be a
very dange rous place for an infant or a ch ild in
a rearward -facing seat.
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle
has been cert ified t o comp ly with the require-
men t s of United States Federa l Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 as applicable at the time
your vehicle was manufactured.
The Standard requires t he front a irbag on the
passenger side to be t urned off ("sup-
pressed") if a child up to about one year of
age restrained in one of the rear -facing or for-
ward -facing infant restraints listed in Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with wh ich
the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
was certified has been installed o n the front
passenger seat . For a listing of the child re-
straints that were used to certify compliance
with the US Safety Sta ndard ~ page 177.
The
PASSENG ER AIR BAG OFF
light in the in-
strument panel tells you when the front Ad-
vanced Airbag on the passenger side has been
turned off by the e lectronic control unit.
Each t ime you sw itch on the ignit ion, the
PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG OFF
light will come on for a
few seconds and:
- will stay on if the front passenger seat is not
occupied ,
- will stay on if the electrical capacitance
measured by the capacitive passenger de-
tection system for the front passenger seat
A irbag
sys tem
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equa ls the combined capacitance of an in-
fant up to about one year of age and one of
the rearward-facing or forward-facing ch ild
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your ve hicle was
cert ified . For a listing of the child restraints
that were used to certify your vehicle's com-
p liance w ith the U.S. Safety Standard
~ page 177 .
- will stay on if t he re is a small ch ild or child
restrai nt on the front passenge r seat,
- will go off if the front passenger seat is oc-
cupied by an adult as registered by the ca-
pacitive passenger det ection system
~
page 161, Monitoring the Advanced Air-
bag System.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
when e lect rica l capacitance registe red on the
front passenger seat is equa l to or less than
the combined capacitance of a typical 1 year -
o ld infant and one of the rearward-facing or
forward -facing chi ld restraints listed in Feder-
al Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with
which the Advanced Airbag System in your ve-
hicle was certified.
If the total e lectr ical capacitance registered
on the front passenger seat is more than that
of a typical 1 year-o ld child but less than the
weight of a small adu lt, the front airbag on
the passenger side can deploy (the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on).
If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on, the front airbag on the passen -
ger side has not been turned off by the e lec-
tron ic contro l unit and can deploy if the con-
t rol unit senses an impact t hat mee t s the con-
dit ions st ored in its memo ry.
For example, th e airbag may deploy if:
- a small ch ild that is heav ier than a typical 1
year-old chi ld is on the front passenger seat
(regard less of whether the child is in one of
the child seats listed~ page 177), or
- a child who has outgrown child restraints is
on the front passenger seat.
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