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Thresholds can also vary with specific vehicle design.
Frontal airbags are not intended to inflate during vehicle
rollovers, rear impacts, or in many side impacts.
In addition, your vehicle has dual-stage frontal airbags.
Dual-stage airbags adjust the restraint according to
crash severity. Your vehicle has electronic frontal
sensors, which help the sensing system distinguish
between a moderate frontal impact and a more severe
frontal impact. For moderate frontal impacts, dual-stage
airbags inflate at a level less than full deployment.
For more severe frontal impacts, full deployment
occurs.
Your vehicle may have one or two seat position
sensors, depending on what model you have.
The seat position sensor(s) enable the sensing system
to monitor the position of the driver seat (all models
except Z06 and ZR1) and the right front passenger seat
(all models). Seat position sensor(s) provide information
that is used to determine if the airbags should deploy at
a reduced level or at full deployment.
Your vehicle may or may not have seat-mounted side
impact airbags. See Airbag System
on page 2‑44
.
Seat-mounted side impact airbags are intended
to inflate in moderate to severe side crashes.
Seat-mounted side impact airbags will inflate if
the crash severity is above the system's designed
threshold level. The threshold level can vary with
specific vehicle design.
Seat-mounted side impact airbags are not intended to
inflate in frontal impacts, near-frontal impacts, rollovers,
or rear impacts. A seat-mounted side impact airbag is
intended to deploy on the side of the vehicle that
is struck.
In any particular crash, no one can say whether an
airbag should have inflated simply because of the
damage to a vehicle or because of what the repair
costs were. For seat-mounted side impact airbags,
deployment is determined by the location and
severity of the side impact.
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