Buick LaCrosse: How Does an Airbag Restrain?
In moderate to severe frontal or near frontal collisions, even belted occupants can contact the steering wheel or the instrument panel. In moderate to severe side collisions, even belted occupants can contact the inside of the vehicle.
Airbags supplement the protection provided by safety belts by distributing the force of the impact more evenly over the occupant's body.
But airbags would not help in many types of collisions, primarily because the occupant's motion is not toward those airbags. See When Should an Airbag Inflate? for more information.
Airbags should never be regarded as anything more than a supplement to safety belts.
What Makes an Airbag Inflate?
In a deployment event, the sensing
system sends an electrical signal
triggering a release of gas from the
inflator. Gas from the inflator fills the
airbag causing the bag to break out
of the ...
What Will You See after an Airbag Inflates?
After the frontal airbags and
seat-mounted side impact airbags
inflate, they quickly deflate, so
quickly that some people may not
even realize an airbag inflated.
Roof-rail airbags may still ...
See also:
Operating DAC
Certain settings can be made from the menu system controlled from the center
instrument panel.
The current system status can be checked on the trip computer’s display by using
the buttons on th ...
Selecting a channel
There are three ways of tuning in a channel:
Using the left and right arrow keys to go to the next channel. Skipped channels
(see page 220) will be excluded.
By turning the TUNE control and s ...
In Case of an Emergency
Helpful information on what to do in an emergency. ...
