Safety features of your vehicle – Hyundai 2011 Tucson User Manual

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Safety features of your vehicle

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Side impact and curtain air bags
Side impact and curtain air bags are
designed to inflate when an impact is
detected by side collision sensors
depending on the strength, speed or
angles of impact resulting from a side
impact collision.

Also, the side impact and curtain air bags
are designed to inflate when a rollover is
detected by the rollover sensor.
Although the driver's and front passen-
ger's air bags are designed to inflate only
in frontal collisions, they also may inflate
in other types of collisions if the front
impact sensors detect a sufficient
impact. Side impact and curtain air bags
are designed to inflate only in side impact
collisions or rollovers. But they may
inflate in other type of collisions or simi-
lar rollover situations, including when the
vehicle is tilted such as being towed if the
side impact sensors or rollover sensor
detect a sufficient impact or rollover.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
bumps or objects on unimproved roads,
the air bags may deploy. Drive carefully
on unimproved roads or on surfaces not
designed for vehicle traffic to prevent
unintended air bag deployment.

Air bag non-inflation conditions

• In certain low-speed collisions the air

bags may not deploy. The air bags are
designed not to deploy in such cases
because they may not provide benefits
beyond the protection of the seat belts
in such collisions.

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