Kia Sportage Hybrid 2024 Owner's Manual page 83

Safety features of your vehicle
vehicle is tilted whilst being towed. Even
if side and/or curtain air bags do not
provide impact protection in a rollover,
they will deploy to prevent ejection of
occupants, especially those who are
restrained with seat belts.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
bumps or objects on unimproved roads
or sidewalks, air bags may deploy. Drive
carefully on unimproved roads or on
surfaces not designed for vehicle traffic
to prevent unintended air bag deploy -
ment.
NOTICE
If equipped with rollover sensor
Also, the side and curtain air bags are
designed to inflate when a rollover is
detected by a rollover sensor.
Air bag non-inflation conditions
Air bag non-inflation conditions
ONQ5H021014
ONQ5H021016
ONQ5H021018
ONQ5H021017
In certain low-speed collisions
the air bags may not deploy.
Air bags are not designed to
inflate in rear collisions.
Heavy braking lowers the
front portion of the vehicle
causing it to "ride" under a
vehicle with a higher ground
clearance.
Air bags may not inflate in this
"under-ride" situation because
deceleration forces that are
detected by sensors may be
significantly reduced by such
"under-ride" collisions.
In an angled collision, the force
of impact may send the occu -
pants in a direction where the
air bags would not be able to
provide any additional benefit;
thus, the sensors may not
deploy any air bags.
Air bag - supplemental restraint system
Air bag non-inflation conditions
ONQ5H021015
ONQ5H021019
ONQ5H021020
WARNING
僅 The SRS is designed to deploy the
front air bags only when an impact is
sufficiently severe and when the
impact angle is less than 30° from the
forward longitudinal axis of the vehi -
cle.
僅 Front air bags are not intended to
deploy in side-impact, rear-impact or
rollover crashes. In addition, front air
bags will not deploy in frontal crashes
below the deployment threshold.
僅 The air bags deploy only in certain
side impact or rollover conditions
(Only vehicle equipped with rollover
sensor) severe enough to cause sig -
nificant injury to the vehicle occu -
pants.
僅 If your vehicle is equipped with side
and curtain air bag, set the ignition
switch or ENGINE START/STOP but -
ton to OFF or ACC position and wait
for 3 minutes when the vehicle is
being towed. This side and curtain air
bag may deploy when the ignitions is
ON or the ignition is OFF within 3 min -
utes, and the rollover sensor detects
the situation as a rollover.
Front air bags may not inflate
in side impact collisions.
However, if equipped with
side and curtain air bags, the
air bags may inflate depend -
ing on the intensity, vehicle
speed and angles of impact.
Air bags may not inflate in roll -
over accidents because the
vehicle cannot detect the rollo -
ver.
Air bags may not inflate if the
vehicle collides with objects
such as utility poles or trees,
meaning the point of impact is
concentrated in one area and
the full force of the impact is
not delivered to the sensors.
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