Volkswagen Golf GTI 2016, Owner'S Manual

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a sudden maneuver or impact. An unrestrained or improperly
restrained child is also at greater risk of injury or death through
contact with an inflating airbag.
Accident statistics show that children are safer on the rear seat
than on the front seat.
A suitable child restraint properly installed and used at one of
the rear seating positions provides the highest degree of
protection for infants and small children in most accident
situations.
Although the Advanced Airbag System has been designed to
switch off when an infant or small child is on the front
passenger seat in a child restraint that was used during the
certification process for the Advanced Airbag System, no one
can guarantee with absolute certainty that the airbag will never
deploy under these particular conditions in all conceivable
situations for the duration of your vehicle's use.
The Advanced Airbag System can deploy in accordance with
the low risk option for 3 to 6 year-old children under the U.S.
Federal Standard if a child with electrical capacitance greater
than the combined capacitance of a typical 1 year-old infant
restrained in one of the forward facing or rearward-facing child
restraints with which your vehicle was certified is on the front
passenger seat and the other conditions for airbag deployment
are met.
For their own safety, all children, especially 12 years and
younger, must always ride on the back seat properly