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Safety features of your vehicle
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Air bag - supplemental restraint system
Side and curtain air bags are designed
to inflate when an impact is detected by
side collision sensors depending on the
strength, speed or angles of impact
resulting from a side impact collision.
Although the front air bags (driver’s and
front passenger’s air bags) are designed
to inflate only in frontal collisions, they
also may inflate in other types of colli
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sions if the front impact sensors detect a
sufficient impact. Side and curtain air
bags are designed to inflate only in side
impact collisions, but they may inflate in
other collisions if the side impact sensors
detect a sufficient impact.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
bumps or objects on unimproved roads,
the air bags may deploy. Drive carefully
on unimproved roads or on surfaces not
designed for vehicle traffic to prevent
unintended air bag deployment.
Air bag non-inflation conditions
僅 In certain low-speed collisions the air
bags may not deploy. The air bags are
designed not to deploy in such cases
because they may not provide bene
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fits beyond the protection of the seat
belts in such collisions.
僅 Frontal air bags are not designed to
inflate in rear collisions, because
occupants are moved backward by
the force of the impact. In this case,
inflated air bags would not be able to
provide any additional benefit.
僅 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 deployment would not provide
additional occupant protection.
However, side and curtain air bags
may inflate depending on the inten
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sity, vehicle speed and angles of
impact.
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