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Essential Safety Equipment

SRS Air Bags

WARNING

  Do not allow an occupant in the front passenger's seat to sit with a posture which 
makes it diffi

    cult for the front passenger occupant classifi cation sensor to detect the 

occupant correctly:

  Sitting in the front passenger's seat with a posture which makes it diffi

  cult for the front 

passenger occupant classifi cation sensor to detect the occupant correctly is dangerous. 
If the front passenger occupant classifi cation sensor cannot detect the occupant sitting 
on the front passenger's seat correctly, the front passenger front and side air bags and 
pretensioner system may not operate (deploy) or they may operate (deploy) accidentally. 
The front passenger will not have the supplementary protection of the air bags or the 
accidental operation (deployment) of the air bags could result in serious injury or death.
  Under the following conditions, the front passenger occupant classifi cation sensor 
cannot detect a passenger sitting on the front passenger's seat correctly and the 
deployment/non-deployment of the air bags cannot be controlled as indicated in the 
front passenger air bag deactivation indicator light on/off  condition chart. For example:

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  A front passenger is seated as shown in the following fi gure: