SRS Air Bag Deployment Criteria; Essential Safety Equipment; SRS Air Bags- Page 61

SRS Air Bag Deployment Criteria

This chart indicates the applicable SRS equipment that will deploy depending on the type of
collision.
(The illustrations are the representative cases of collisions.)

SRS equip‐

ment

Types of collision

A severe frontal/near frontal collision

A severe side collision

*2

A rear collision

Seat belt

pretensioner

X

*1

X

*1

No air bag and seat belt

pretensioner will be activat‐

ed in a rear collision.

Driver air

bag

X

Passenger

air bag

X

*1

Side air bag

X

*1

 (impact side only)

X : The SRS air bag equipment is designed to deploy in a collision.

*

1 The passenger front and side air bags and the seat belt pretensioner are designed to deploy when the passenger

occupant classification sensor detects a passenger sitting on the passenger's seat.

*

2 In a side collision, the seat belt pretensioners and the side air bags deploy.

NOTE

In a frontal offset collision, the equipped air bags and pretensioners may all deploy depending on the direction,
angle, and rate of impact.

Essential Safety Equipment

SRS Air Bags

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