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When Should an Airbag Inﬂate?

The driver’s and right front passenger’s frontal

airbags are designed to inﬂate in moderate to

severe frontal or near-frontal crashes. But they are

designed to inﬂate only if the impact exceeds a

predetermined deployment threshold. Deployment

thresholds take into account a variety of desired

deployment and non-deployment events and are

used to predict how severe a crash is likely to be in

time for the airbags to inﬂate and help restrain the

occupants. Whether your frontal airbags will or

should deploy is not based on how fast your vehicle

is traveling. It depends largely on what you hit, the

direction of the impact, and how quickly your

vehicle slows down.

In addition, your vehicle has “dual-stage” frontal

airbags, which 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,

these airbags inﬂate at a level less than full

deployment. For more severe frontal impacts, full

deployment occurs. If the front of your vehicle goes

straight into a wall that does not move or deform,

the threshold level for the reduced deployment is

about 11 to 16 mph (17 to 26 km/h), and the

threshold level for a full deployment is about

20 to 25 mph (32 to 40 km/h). The threshold level

can vary, however, with speciﬁc vehicle design, so

that it can be somewhat above or below this range.

Frontal airbags may inﬂate at different crash

speeds. For example:

• If the vehicle hits a stationary object, the

airbags could inﬂate at a different crash speed

than if the vehicle hits a moving object.

• If the vehicle hits an object that deforms,

the airbags could inﬂate at a different

crash speed than if the vehicle hits an object

that does not deform.

• If the vehicle hits a narrow object (like a pole),

the airbags could inﬂate at a different crash

speed than if the vehicle hits a wide object

(like a wall).

• If the vehicle goes into an object at an angle,

the airbags could inﬂate at a different crash

speed than if the vehicle goes straight into the

object.

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