Cadillac LYRIQ 2024 - How Does an Airbag Restrain?; What Will You See after an Airbag Inflates?

Cadillac LYRIQ Owner Manual (GMNA-Localizing-Europe-16878479) -
2024 - CRC - 9/20/23
54 Seats and Restraints
For airbag locations, see Where Are the
Airbags? 0 52.
How Does an Airbag Restrain?
In moderate to severe frontal collisions, even
belted occupants can contact the steering
wheel or the instrument panel. In moderate
to severe side collisions, even belted
occupants can contact the inside of the
vehicle.
Airbags supplement the protection provided
by seat belts by distributing the force of the
impact more evenly over the
occupant's body.
Rollover capable roof-rail airbags are
designed to help contain the head and chest
of occupants in the outboard seating
positions in the first and second rows. The
rollover capable roof-rail airbags are
designed to help reduce the risk of full or
partial ejection in rollover events, although
no system can prevent all such ejections.
But airbags would not help in many types
of collisions, primarily because the
occupant's motion is not toward those
airbags. See When Should an Airbag Inflate?
0 53.
Airbags should never be regarded as
anything more than a supplement to seat
belts.
What Will You See after an
Airbag Inflates?
After frontal and seat-mounted side impact
airbags inflate, they quickly deflate, so
quickly that some people may not even
realise the airbags have inflated. Roof-rail
airbags may still be at least partially
inflated for some time after deployment.
Some components of the airbag module
may be hot for several minutes. For location
of the airbags, see Where Are the Airbags?
0 52.
The parts of the airbag that come into
contact with you may be warm, but not too
hot to touch. There may be some smoke
and dust coming from the vents in the
deflated airbags. Airbag inflation does not
prevent people from leaving the vehicle.
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Warning
When an airbag inflates, there may be
dust in the air. This dust could cause
breathing problems for people with a
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Warning (Continued)
history of asthma or other breathing
trouble. To avoid this, everyone should
leave the vehicle as soon as it is safe to
do so. If you have breathing problems
but cannot get out of the vehicle after an
airbag inflates, then get fresh air by
opening a window or a door. If you
experience breathing problems following
an airbag deployment, you should seek
medical attention.
The vehicle has a feature that may
automatically unlock the doors, turn on the
interior lamps and hazard warning flashers
after the airbags inflate. The feature may
also activate, without airbag inflation, after
an event that exceeds a predetermined
threshold. After turning the vehicle off and
then on again, the doors can be locked, the
interior lamps can be turned off, and the
hazard warning lights can be turned off
using the controls for those features. If any
of these systems are damaged in the crash
they may not operate as normal.