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safety seat.
It ca
n be a very
dang
erous place for
an infant or a child in a rearward -facing seat
.
The Advanced Airbag System
in
your ve hicle has
been ce
rt
ified
t
o comply with the requi rements
of United States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard (FMVSS) 208, as well as Canada Motor
Vehicle Safety Standard (CMVSS) 208 as applica
-
ble at the time your veh icle was manufactured.
Accord ing to requ irements, the front Advanced
Airbag System o
n
the passenger s ide has been
cert ified for "suppression" for infants of about
12 month old and younger and fo
r
"low risk de-
ployment
"
for children aged 3
t
o 6 years old (as
defined in the standard).
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in the instru-
ment panel tells you when the front Advanced
Airbag on the passe nger side has been t urned off
by
t
he ele ctronic con
t
rol unit.
Each t ime you tur
n
on the ignit ion, the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light will come on fo
r
a few
seconds and:
-
will stay on if the front passenger seat is not
occup ied,
-
will stay on if there is a small child or child re-
straint on the front passenger seat,
-
will go off if the front passenger seat is occu-
pied by an adult as reg istered by the weight
-
sensing mat
¢
page 139, Monitoring the Ad-
vanced Airbag System
.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
when the control unit detects a total we ight on
the fro nt passenge
r
seat that requires the front
a irbag to be
t
ur ned off.
If the total weight on the front passenger seat is
more than that of a typical 1 year -old child but
less t han the weight of a small adult, the front
a irbag on the passenger side can deploy (the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come
on). If
t
he
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on, the front airb ag on the passenge
r
side has not been turned
off
by the e lectronic
control unit and can dep loy if the control unit
senses an impact that meets the condit ions stor-
ed in its memory.
For example
,
the ai rbag may deploy if:
Airb
a
g
sys
tem
-
a small
child
that is heav ier than a typ ica
l 1
year-o ld child is on the front passenger seat
(regardless of whether the child is in one of the
child safety seats listed
¢
page 153),
or
-
a child who has outgrown child restraints is on
the front passenger seat.
If
t
he front passenge
r
airbag is t urned off, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on in the
inst rument cluste
r
and stays on.
The front
a
irbag on the passenger side may not
deploy (the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not illuminate and stay lit) even if a small adu lt
or
teenager, or a passenger who is not sitting up
-
rig ht with their back against a non-recl ined back-
rest with the ir feet on the vehicle floor in front of
t he seat is on the fron
t
passenger seat
¢
page 113, Proper seating position for the driv
-
er
.
If the front passenger a irbag deploys, the Feder-
al Standard requ ires the a irbag to meet the "low
risk" deployment criteria to reduce the risk of
in-
jury through interaction with the airbag
.
"Low
risk" deployment occurs in t hose crashes that
t ake place at lowe
r d
ecele rations as defined in
t he e lectron ic co
ntr
ol unit¢ page 139, PASSEN-
GER
AI
R BAG
OFF
light.
Always re membe r, a ch ild safety sea
t
or infant
carrier
ins
t
alled on
t
he fro nt seat may be
st
ruck
and knocked
out
of posit io
n
by
t
he
ra
pidly inflat-
ing passenge r's airbag in a fron
t
al coll ision
.
The
airbag could great ly red uce the effectiveness of
t he child restraint and even seriously injure the
child du ring inflation.
For t his reason, an
d
beca use the back seat is the
safest place for children - when proper ly restrain
-
ed according to their age and size
-
we strongly
recommend that children always sit in the back
seat ¢ page 151, Child safety
.
A
WARNING
-
A child in a rearward-facing child safety seat
insta lled on the front passenger seat will be
se riously
injur
ed and can be killed if
t
he front
a irbag inflates - even with an
Adva
nced Airbag
Syst
em.
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