Kia Sportage 2010 Owner's Manual page 67

Knowing your vehicle
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• If occupants are not wearing
safety belts or correctly seat-
1
ed, they cannot be fully pro-
tected, and thus face a greater
2
risk of serious injury or death.
• Driver's and front passenger's
airbag are designed to inflate
3
only in certain frontal colli-
sion, and side and curtain
airbags are designed to inflate
4
in certain side
Frontal airbags
5
designed to provide protec-
tion in side impacts, rear
impacts, rollovers, or less
6
severe frontal collisions. They
will not provide protection
from later impacts in a multi-
7
impact collision.
8
9
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• If your vehicle has been sub-
jected to flood conditions (e.g.
soaked
water on the floor of the vehi-
cle, etc.) or if your vehicle has
become flood damaged in any
way, do not attempt to start
the vehicle or put the key in
the ignition. Have the vehicle
towed to an authorized Kia
dealer for inspection and nec-
impacts.
essary repairs.
are not
Disregarding this precaution
may cause an unexpected
airbag
could result in serious per-
sonal injury or death.
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carpeting/standing
deployment, which
The SRS uses a collection of sen-
sors to gather information about the
driver's and front passenger's seat
position, the driver's and front pas-
senger's safety belt usage and
impact severity.
The driver's and front passenger's
seat position sensors, which are
installed on the seat track let the
airbag control module know where
the seats are positioned. Similarly,
the safety belt usage sensors mea-
sure if the driver and front passen-
ger's safety belts are fastened. These
sensors provide the ability to control
the SRS deployment based on how
close the driver's seat is to the steer-
ing wheel, how close the passen-
ger's seat is to the instrument panel,
whether or not the safety belts are
fastened, and the severity of the
impact.