SAFETY RESTRAINTS
Personal Safety System
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The Personal Safety System
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provides an improved overall level of
frontal crash protection to front seat occupants and is designed to help
further reduce the risk of airbag-related injuries. The system is able to
analyze different occupant conditions and crash severity before activating
the appropriate safety devices to help better protect a range of
occupants in a variety of frontal crash situations.
Your vehicle’s Personal Safety System
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consists of the following items:
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Driver and passenger dual-stage airbag supplemental restraints
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Driver and front passenger side airbags
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Driver and passenger side air curtains (if equipped)
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Front safety belts with pretensioners, energy management retractors,
and safety belt usage sensors
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Driver’s seat position sensor
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Front crash severity sensor
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Restraints Control Module (RCM) with impact and safing sensors
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Restraint system warning light and back-up tone
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The electrical wiring for the airbags, crash sensor(s), safety belt
pretensioners, front safety belt usage sensors, driver seat position
sensor, and indicator lights
How does the Personal Safety System
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work?
The Personal Safety System
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can adapt the deployment strategy of your
vehicle’s safety devices according to crash severity and occupant
conditions. A collection of crash and occupant sensors provides
information to the Restraints control module (RCM). During a crash, the
RCM activates the safety belt pretensioners and/or either one or both
stages of the dual-stage airbag supplemental restraints based on crash
severity and occupant conditions.
The fact that the pretensioners or airbags did not activate for both front
seat occupants in a collision does not mean that something is wrong with
the system. Rather, it means the Personal Safety System
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determined
the accident conditions (crash severity, belt usage, etc.) were not
appropriate to activate these safety devices. Front airbags and
pretensioners are designed to activate only in frontal and near-frontal
collisions, not rollovers, side-impacts, or rear-impacts unless the collision
causes sufficient longitudinal deceleration.
2006 Lincoln LS
(dew)
Owners Guide (post-2002-fmt)
USA
(fus)
Seating and Safety Restraints
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