The passenger sensing system is designed to turn off
A
child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed
if
the right front
passenger’s air bag inflates. This is because
the back of the rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating air bag. Be
sure the air bag
is
off
before using a
rear-facing child restraint in the right front seat
position.
Even though the passenger sensing system
is
designed to turn
off
the passenger’s frontal air
bag
if
the system detects a rear-facing child
restraint, no sensing system
is
fail-safe, and
no one can guarantee that an air bag will not
deploy under some unusual circumstance,
even though
it
is turned
off.
General Motors,
therefore, recommends that rear-facing child
restraints be secured
in
the rear seat whenever
possible, even
if
the air bag is
off.
the
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e
right front passenger’s frontal air bag
if:
the right front passenger seat is unoccupied,
the system determines that an infant is present in a
rear-facing infant seat,
the system determines that a small child is present
in a forward-facing child restraint,
the system determines that a small child is present
in a booster seat,
a right front passenger takes hidher weight
off
of
the seat for a period of time.
the right front passenger seat is occupied by a
smaller person, such as a child who has outgrown
child restraints.
or
if
there is a critical problem with the air bag
system or the passenger sensing system.
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