Safety features of your vehicle
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Air bag - supplemental restraint system
䳜 Front air bags may not inflate in
side impact collisions, because
occupants move to the direction
of the collision, and thus in side
impacts, frontal air bag deploy
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ment would not provide additional
occupant protection.
However, side and curtain air bags
may inflate depending on the
intensity, vehicle speed and
angles of impact.
䳜 In an angled collision, the force of
impact may direct the occupants
in a direction where the air bags
would not be able to provide any
additional benefit, and thus the
sensors may not deploy any air
bags.
䳜 Just before impact, drivers often
brake heavily. Such heavy braking
lowers the front portion of the
vehicle causing it to 䳖ride䳗 under a
vehicle with a higher ground
clearance. Air bags may not
inflate in this "under-ride" situa
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tion because deceleration forces
that are detected by sensors may
be significantly reduced by such
䳖under-ride䳗 collisions.
䳜 Air bags do not inflate in most
rollover accidents, even though
the vehicle is equipped with side
air bags and curtain air bags.
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