GMC 2013 Acadia Options Manual page 22

SAFETY
Designed to help protect you before, during and even after a collision, Acadia offers a reassuring level of safety engineering features. To aid you in avoiding
a collision in the fi rst place, Acadia uses sensor-based technologies like StabiliTrak, a stability control system. Acadia's seven air bags—including an
available industry-fi rst front center air bag—protect you during a collision. After a crash, OnStar
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Visit onstar.com for details and system limitations.
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REAR CROSS TRAFFIC ALERT FRONT CENTER AIR BAG
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This feature monitors your The 2013 GMC Acadia offers the
surrounding environment and, industry's first available front
working with the Rear-Vision center air bag. This air bag is
Camera System, sends audio designed to help protect drivers
and visual warnings that alert and front-seat passengers in
you to any cross traffic while far-side impact crashes where
backing up. It is standard on the affected occupant is on
SLT-2 and Denali models. the opposite, non-struck side
of the vehicle.
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2 SIDE-IMPACT AIR BAGS 2 To
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help protect the thorax and pelvic
regions of the driver and front
passenger in a side-impact
collision, Acadia models include
standard side-impact air bags
mounted on the driver and
outside front passenger seats.
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Air bag infl ation can cause severe injury or
death to anyone too close to the air bag
when it deploys. Be sure every occupant is
properly restrained. Always use safety belts
and the correct child restraint for your child's
age and size, even with air bags. Even in
vehicles equipped with the Passenger
Sensing System, children are safer when
properly secured in a rear seat in the
appropriate infant, child or booster seat.
Never place a rear-facing infant restraint
in the front seat of any vehicle equipped
with an active frontal air bag. See your
Owner's Manual and child safety seat
instruction for more safety information.
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can respond by summoning emergency help if needed.
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HEAD CURTAIN SIDE-IMPACT DUAL-STAGE FRONTAL AIR
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AIR BAGS These air bags unfurl BAGS AND SIDE-IMPACT AIR
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from the roof rail like a protective BAGS To help reduce the risk
curtain for outboard passengers
of injury to driver and front
and can be activated by either passengers, the dual-stage
rollover sensors or side-impact frontal air bags in Acadia have
sensors. sensors that gauge the severity
of a crash, then determine
whether to employ one or two
levels of inflation. Acadia also
features a Passenger Sensing
System for the outboard front
passenger that automatically
turns off the air bag if the pass-
enger is under the appropriate
weight.
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