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& WARNIN G (continued)
• Airb ag work most effectiv ely when used with properly w orn
safet y belt s.
• Ther efore, always wear your safety belt s and ma ke sure that
everybody in your vehicle is properly restr ained.
& WARNING
A person on the front passenger seat, especially infant s and small
children, will receive seriou s injuries and can even be killed by
being t oo close to the airbag when it inflates.
• Although the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle is
designed to turn off the front passenger airbag if an infant or a
small child is on the front passenger seat , nobody can absolutely
guarantee that deployment under these special conditio ns is
impos sible in all conceivable situations that may happen during
the useful life of your vehicle.
• The Advanced Airbag System can deploy in accordance with
the "low risk" option unde r the U.S. Federal Stand ard if a child t hat
is heavier than the typi cal one-year old child is on th e front
passenger seat and the other condition s for airbag dep loyment
are met.
• Accident stat isti cs have shown that children are generally safer
in the rear seat area than in the front seating posit ion.
• For their own safet y, all children, especially 12 years and
younger, should alway s ride in th e back properly restrained for
their age and size. •
Advanced front airbag system
Your vehicle is equipped with a front Advanced Airbag System in
compliance with United States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Stan -
dard 208 as applicable at the time your vehicle was manufactured.
Controls and equip-
ment
Safety first Vehicle operation
The front Advanced Airbag System supplements the safety belts to
provide additional protection for the driver's and front passenger's
heads and upper bodies in fronta l crashes. The airbags inflate only
in frontal impacts when the vehic le deceleration is high enough.
The front Advanced Airbag System for the front seat occupants is
not a substitute for your safety belts . Rather, it is part of the overall
occupant restraint system in your vehicle. A lways remember that
the airbag system can only help to protect you, if you are sitting
upright, wear ing your safety belt and wear ing it proper ly. This is why
you and your passengers must always be properly restrained, not
just because t he law requires you to be.
The Advanced A irbag System in your veh icle has been certified to
meet the " low risk" requirements for 3 and 6 year -old children on the
passenger side and very small adults on the driver side. The low risk
deployment criteria are intended to help reduce the risk of injury
through interact ion with the front airbag t hat can occur, for
examp le, by being too close to the steering whee l and instrument
panel when the airbag inflates.
In addition, the system has been certified to comply with the
"suppression" requirements of the Safety Standard, to turn off t he
front airbag for infants 12 months old and younger who are
restrained on the front passenger seat in child restraints that are
listed in the Standard~
page 192, "Child restraints and Advanced
Airbags".
"S uppression" requi res the front ai rbag on the passenger side to be
turned off if :
• a child up to about one year of age is restrained on the front
passenger seat in one of the rear-facing or forward-facing infant
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with
wh ich the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle was certified. For
a listing of the child restraints that were used to certify your
vehic le's compliance wi t h the US Safety Standard ~
page 192,
• weight less than a threshold leve l stored in the control unit is
detected on t he front passenger seat . _.
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