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about children and Advanced Airbags
¢ page 167 .
Even though your vehicle is equ ipped with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System, make certain that all ch il-
dren, especially those 12 years and younger, al-
ways ride in the back seat properly restrained for
their age and s ize. 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 for a chi ld in a fo rward -facing chi ld
seat .
It
can be a very dangerous place fo r an in-
fant or a child in a rea rward-facing seat.
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle has
been certified to comp ly with the requi rements
of Unit ed States Federal Moto r Vehicle Safety
Standa rd 208 as applicab le at the t ime your vehi-
cle was man ufactu red.
The Standard requires the front a irbag on the
passenger side to be turned off ("supp ressed ") if
a child up to abo ut one year of age restrained in
one of t he rear-fa cing or forward -facing infant re-
st raints listed in Fede ral Motor Vehicle Safety
St anda rd 20 8 wit h which the Advanced Airbag
System in your vehicle was certifie d has been in-
stalled on the front passenger seat. For a listing
of the ch ild restra ints that were used to certify
compliance with the US Safety Standard
¢ page 169 .
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in the instru-
ment panel tells you when the front Advanced
Airbag on t he passenger side has been turned off
by the electro nic contro l unit .
Each t ime yo u 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 elect rical capacitance meas -
ured by t he capacitive passenger detection sys-
tem for the front passenger seat eq uals the
combined capacitance of an infant up to abo ut
one yea r of age and one of the rearward- facing
or forward-faci ng chi ld restraints listed in Fed-
eral Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 w it h
wh ich the Advanced Airbag System in your veh i-
cle was cert ified. For a listing of t he ch ild re-
Airbag
sys t e m
st raints that we re used t o cert ify yo ur vehicle's
compliance with the U.S. Safety Standard
¢ page 169.
- will stay on if there is a small child or child re-
st raint on the front passenger seat,
- will go off if t he front passenger sea t is occu -
pie d by an adu lt as registere d by the capacitive
passe nger detect ion system
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page 154, Mon -
itoring the Advanced Airbag System.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
whe n e lectrica l capacitance registered on the
front passenger seat is eq ua l to or less than the
combined capacitance of a typical 1 year-o ld in-
fan t and one of the rearward-facing or forward-
facing child restraints listed in Federa l Moto r Ve-
hicle Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your vehicl e was certi-
fied.
If the total e lectr ical capacitance registered on
the front passenge r seat is more than that of a
typ ical 1 year-old child but less than the we ight
of a sma ll adult, t he fron t a irbag on t he passen-
ger side can deploy (t he
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light does not come on).
If
th e
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on, t he front a irbag on t he passenger side
has not been tu rned off by the elec tr onic con t rol
unit and can dep loy if the con t rol un it senses an
impact that meets t he conditions stored in its
memo ry.
For example , the airbag may deploy if :
- a small ch ild that is heav ier than a typical 1
yea r-old ch ild is on the front passenge r seat (re-
ga rdless of whethe r t he chi ld is in one of the
child seats list ed ¢ page 169), or
- a child who has outgrown ch ild restraints is on
t he fron t passenger seat .
If the front passenger airbag is turned off, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on in the
inst rument cluste r and stays on.
If the front passenger airbag dep loys, the Fede ral
Standard requires the airbag to meet t he ''low
risk" deployment criteria to red uce the risk of in-
j ury through interaction with the a irbag. "Low
risk" de ploymen t occurs in t hose crashes t hat
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