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Airb a g sys t e m
- The Advanced Airbag System can deploy
in accordance with the "low risk" opt ion
under the U.S. Federa l Standard if a child
that is heavier than the typical one-year
old child is on the front passenger seat
and the other cond itions for airbag de-
ployme nt are met.
- Accident statist ics have shown that chi l-
dren are generally safer in the rea r seat
area t han in the front seating posit io n.
- For their own safety, all children, espe-
cially 12 yea rs and younger, sho uld a l-
ways ride in t he back pro perly rest rained
for t heir age an d size.
Advanced front airbag system
Your veh icle is eq uipped wit h a front Advanced
Airbag System in compliance with United
States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
208 as applicab le at the time your vehicle was
manufactured.
The front Advanced Airbag System supp le-
ments the safety belts to provide addit ional
protection for the driver's and front passeng -
er's heads and upper bodies in frontal crashes.
The airbags inflate only in frontal impacts
when the vehicle dece lerat io n is high enough .
The front Advanced Airbag System for the
front seat occupants is not a substitute for
your safety belts. Rather, it is part of t he over-
all occupa nt restraint system in your ve hicle.
Always remember that the airbag system can
on ly help to protect you, if you are sitting up-
right, wearing your safety belt and wea ring it
properly. This is w hy you and your passenge rs
must always be properly restrained, not just
beca use the law requires you to be.
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle
has been cer tified t o meet t he "low risk" re-
qu irements for 3 and 6 year -old children on
the passenger side and very small adu lts on
the driver side. The low risk deployment crite -
ria are intended to he lp red uce the risk of in-
jury through interaction with the front airbag
that can occur, fo r example, by be ing too
close to the steering wheel and instrument
pane l when the airbag inflates .
In add ition, t he system has been certified to
comply wit h the "s uppression" re qu iremen t s
of the Safety Standard, to turn off the front
airbag for infants 12 months o ld and younger
who are rest rained on the front passenger
seat in child restraints that are listed in the
Standard
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page 135, Child restraints and
Advanced Airbags .
"Suppress ion" requires the front a irbag on the
passenger side to be turned off if:
- a child up to abo ut one year of age is re-
strained on the front passenger seat in one
of the rear-fac ing or forward -facing infant
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your vehicle was
cert ified . For a listing of the ch ild res t raints
that were used to certify you r vehicle 's com-
plia nce w it h t he US Safety Standa rd
¢ page 135,
- weight less than a threshold level stored
in
the co ntrol unit is de t ected on t he fron t pas-
senger seat.
When a person is detected on the front pas-
senger seat, weighing more than t he total
we ight of a ch ild t ha t is abou t 1 year old re-
stra ined in one of t he rear-fac ing or forward-
facing infant res t raints (listed in Fede ral Mo-
tor Vehicle Safety Standar d 208 wit h which
the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
was certif ied), the front airbag on the passen-
ger side may or may not deploy.
The PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light comes on
when the electronic contro l unit detects a to-
ta l we ight on the front passenger seat that re -
quires t he front airbag to be t urned off. If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on, the front a irbag on the passenger
side has not been t urned off by the cont ro l
unit and ca n dep loy if the control un it senses
an impact that meets the cond itions store d in
its memory.
If the total weight on the fro nt passenge r
seat is more than that of a typ ical 1 yea r-old , ..,_
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