Specifications

Frontal air bags are designed to help minimize the risk
of injury from the force of an inflating frontal air bag
while providing enough force
to perform properly.
Air bags must inflate very quickly
to do their job and
comply with federal regulations. Therefore, you need
to
know some important things about the air bag
systems..
.
You can be severely injured or killed in a crash
if you aren’t wearing your safety
belt - even if
you have air bags. Wearing your safety belt
during a crash helps reduce your chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or being
ejected from
it. Air bags are designed to work
with safety belts but don’t replace them.
Frontal air bags for the driver and right front
passenger are designed to deploy only
in
moderate to severe frontal and near frontal
crashes. They aren’t designed to inflate at all in
rollover, rear or low-speed frontal crashes, or in
many side crashes. And, for some unrestrained
occupants, frontal air bags may provide less
protection in frontal crashes than more forceful
air bags have provided in the past. The side
impact air bags for the driver and right front
passenger are designed to inflate only in
moderate to severe crashes where something
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