Personal Safety System - Ford Lineup 2006 Owner's Manual

• Mustang's Personal Safety System provides
increased protection in many types of frontal
crashes by analyzing impact factors and
determining proper airbag response in
milliseconds
• The dual-stage driver and front passenger airbags
can deploy at full or partial power. In less severe
frontal crashes, the airbags inflate with less force,
or not at all, helping to reduce the risk of injury
by airbag inflation
• But, it's important to always remember that safety
belts are still the best line of defense for vehicle
occupants
• The Personal Safety System uses pretensioners to
tighten the front safety belts in the first milliseconds
of a crash. If necessary, energy management
retractors then gradually loosen the belts to reduce
forces across the occupants' chests during impact
• The Personal Safety System also features:
– Electronic crash severity sensors that provide
increased protection in many types of frontal
crashes by providing information to the
Restraint Control Module (RCM), which then
analyzes impact factors and determines proper
airbag and safety belt pretensioner response in
milliseconds
– In the event of a crash, the driver's-seat position
sensor tells the RCM where the driver's seat is in
relation to the steering wheel; the RCM can
then determine the appropriate airbag inflation
pressure in milliseconds
All-Speed Traction Control uses the ABS
computer and sensors to monitor wheel
slippage at any speed:
• It improves traction on slippery or
loose driving surfaces by using brake
and/or engine controls:
– Braking at one or both drive wheels
– Fuel injection cutoff
– Ignition spark retard
– Air/fuel ratio
All-Speed Traction Control
The driver can turn off All-Speed Traction Control using a button located on the
instrument panel center stack. Why would anyone want to turn off their All-Speed
Traction Control system?
• To allow excess wheel spin to dig out the vehicle if it's stuck in the snow or on a
slippery surface, and to enable a successful "rocking" maneuver
• When using tire chains
July 2005
2006 Mustang
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Personal Safety System

Front Passenger Sensing System (FPSS)
• As a feature of Mustang's
Personal Safety System, the
Front Passenger Sensing
System (FPSS) is designed
to sense the weight of
the person or object sitting
in the front passenger's
seat, and then activate or
deactivate the front
passenger airbag
• By reading the pressure on
the seat bladder, it can
determine if the passenger's
seat is empty, is holding an
object like a briefcase, is
occupied by a small
person, or is occupied by
an average-size adult
Five-star Frontal Crash Test Rating
• Although NHTSA does not post ratings for carryover vehicles until
December, Mustang Coupe earned a five-star frontal crash test
rating for the driver and right front passenger in 2005 and it is
anticipated that it will do so again in 2006
• Five stars is the highest rating in federal government crash tests
• A five-star rating indicates a 10 percent or less chance of serious
injury in a frontal impact
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• Helps provide a confident driving
experience under adverse road
conditions — improving vehicle
traction and steering control — without
sacrificing dry pavement performance:
– When the lane is slippery on one or
both sides
– As the vehicle pulls out from icy
parking lots or highway shoulders
– During acceleration when cornering
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• The system also uses a safety belt
tension sensor that measures belt load.
There will be more load on the belt,
for example, if a child safety seat is
cinched down in the seat. This
information is sent to the Restraint
Control Module (RCM), which deploys
the airbag appropriately if needed.
This may mean no deployment at all if
the seat is occupied by a small person
or is empty. If the seat is not occupied
during an accident, the airbag will be
deactivated to avoid unnecessary
deployment and replacement
• Even with this technology, Ford
continues to recommend that children
under 12 always ride in the rear seat,
properly secured by a safety belt or a
child safety seat
Power Start
Unique to Mustang, the Power Start
feature allows optimum wheel spin from
a standing start on dry pavement. The
All-Speed Traction Control system is
designed to recognize when the driver
is accelerating hard, then it goes into a
performance programming mode. As
long as the vehicle accelerates forward,
the Power Start feature stays engaged.
Remind your customers that once the system
is switched Off, it defaults to On when the
vehicle is restarted or when the On/Off button
is pressed again.
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