User's Guide Part 1

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Essential Safety Equipment
SRS Air Bags
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
equipment
Types of collision
A severe frontal/near frontal
collision
A severe side
collision
A roll-over/near
roll-over
*3
A rear collision
Front
seat belt
pretensioner
X
*1
(both sides)
X
*1
(impact side
only)
X
*1
(both sides)
No air bag and
front seat belt
pretensioner will be
activated in a rear
collision.
Driver air
bag
X
Front
passenger
air bag
X
*1
Side air bag X
*2
X
*1
(impact side
only)
Curtain air
bag
X
*2
X (impact side
only)
X (both sides)
X: The SRS air bag equipment is designed to deploy in a collision.
*1 The front passenger front and side air bags and the seat belt pretensioner are designed to
deploy depending on the condition of the total seated weight on the front passenger seat.
*2 In an angled collision, the side air bag and curtain air bag may deploy.
*3 In a roll-over accident, the seat belt pretensioners and the curtain air bags deploy.
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