Personal Safety System
The Personal Safety System provides an improved overall level of frontal crash protection to front seat occupants and is designed to help further reduce the risk of airbag-related injuries. The system is able to analyze different occupant conditions and crash severity before activating the appropriate safety devices to help better protect a range of occupants in a variety of frontal crash situations.
Your vehicle’s Personal Safety System consists of:
• Driver and passenger dual-stage airbag supplemental restraints.
• Front outboard safety belts with pretensioners, energy management retractors
(first row only), and safety belt usage sensors.
• Driver’s seat position sensor.
• Front passenger sensing system.
• Passenger airbag off and on indicator lamp.
• Front crash severity sensors.
• Restraints control module with impact and safing sensors.
• Restraint system warning light and backup tone.
• The electrical wiring for the airbags, crash sensor(s), safety belt pretensioners,
front safety belt usage sensors, driver seat position sensor, front passenger sensing
system, and indicator lights.
How Does the Personal Safety System Work?
The Personal Safety System can adapt the deployment strategy of your vehicle’s safety devices according to crash severity and occupant conditions. A collection of crash and occupant sensors provides information to the restraints control module. During a crash, the restraints control module may activate the safety belt pretensioners and/or either one or both stages of the dual-stage airbag supplemental restraints based on crash severity and occupant conditions.
See also:
Driver and passenger airbags
WARNING: Never place your arm or any objects over an airbag module. Placing
your arm over a deploying airbag can result in serious arm fractures or other injuries.
Objects placed on or over the ai ...
Head restraints
WARNING: To minimize the risk of neck injury in the event of a crash,
the driver and passenger occupants should not sit in or operate the vehicle until
the head restraint is placed in its proper p ...
Using cruise control
WARNING: Do not use cruise control in heavy traffic or on roads that are
winding, slippery or unpaved.
Note: Vehicle speed may vary momentarily when driving up or down a steep
hill. Apply the bra ...
