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Airbag
system
safety seat.
It
can be a very dangerous place for
an infant or a child
in
a rearward-facing seat.
The
Advanced Airbag
System
in
your veh icle has
been ce
rt
ified
t
o comp ly with
the Requirements
of United
States
Federal
Motor Vehicle
Safety
Standard 208 as applicable at the time your vehi
-
cle was manufactured.
The
Standard
requires the
front
airbag
on
the
passenger side
to
be
turned
off ("suppressed") if
a child
up
to about one year of age restrained in
one of the rear-fac ing or forward-facing infant re-
straints
listed
in Federal
Motor
Vehicle Safety
Standard 208 w ith which the Advanced Airbag
System in your vehicle was certified has been
in-
stalled on
the
front
passenger
seat
.
For
a listing
of the ch ild restraints that were
used
to certify
comp liance with the
US
Safety Standard
¢
page 154.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in the instru-
ment panel tells you when the front Advanced
Airbag on
the
passenger side has been
turn
ed off
by
the
electron ic
control
unit.
Each t ime you
turn
on the ignition, the
PASSEN-
GER 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 there is a small child or child re-
stra
int
on
the front passenger seat,
-
will go
off if
the front passenger seat is occu-
pied by an adult as
registered
by the weight-
sensing mat
¢
page 142, Monitoring the Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes
on
when the control un it detects a total weight on
the front
passenger
seat that requ ires the front
ai rbag
to
be
turned
off
.
If the tota
l
weight on the front passenger seat is
more than that of a typical 1 year -old child but
less than the we ight of a small adult, the front
airbag on the passenger
side can deploy
(the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come
on).
If
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light
does
not come on,
the front airbag
on the passenger
side has not been turned off by
the
electronic
134
control
unit
and can dep loy if the control unit
senses an impact that meets the
conditions
stor-
ed in its memory
.
For
example, the airbag
may deploy if:
-
a small ch
ild
that is heavier than a
typical
1
year-old chi ld is
on the
front
passenger
seat (re-
ga rdless
of
whethe
r
the
chi
ld
is
in
one
of the
child
safety seats listed¢ page
154),
o
r
-
a
child
who
has
outgrow
n
chi ld restraints is
on
the front passenger seat
.
If
the front
passenger airbag is turned off,
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
in
the
instr
ument cluster and stays on.
The front airbag on
the
passenger side may not
deploy (the
PASSENGER
AIR
BAG OFF
light does
not
illuminate and stay lit) even if a sma
ll
adult
o
r
teenager,
or a
passenger
who is not sitt ing
up-
right
wit
h
t
heir back against a
non-reclined back-
rest
w ith
their
feet on
the
vehicle
floor
in front of
the seat is on the front passenger seat
¢
page 114, Proper seating position for the driv-
er
.
If the front
passenger airbag
deploys, the Federal
Standard
requires
the airbag to meet the "low
risk"
dep loyment criteria to reduce the
risk
of in-
ju
ry through interaction with the airbag. "Low
risk"
dep loyment occurs in those crashes that
take place at lower decelerations as defined in
the
electronic
control un it
¢
page 142, PASSEN-
GER AIR
BAG
OFF light
.
Always remember,
a child safety seat or infant
carr ier installed on the front seat may be struck
and
knocked
out of
position
by the
rapidly
inflat-
ing passenger's airbag in a
frontal
collision
.
The
airbag could greatly reduce the
effectiveness
of
the
chi
ld
restraint
and
even
seriously injure
th
e
child during
inflation.
For th is reason, and because
the back
seat is
the
safest place for
children
- when prope rly restra in-
ed accord ing
to their age and size
-
we strong ly
recommend that children always sit
in
the back
seat
¢
page
152, Child
safety.
..,.
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