Airbag Non-Deployment Conditions

• In certain low-speed collisions, the airbags may not deploy. The airbags are designed not to deploy in such cases because they cannot provide any benefit beyond the protection of the seat belts in such collisions.

• Airbags are not designed to deploy in a rear impact, because occupants are moved rearward by the force of the impact. In this case, deployed airbags would not provide any additional benefit.

• Front airbags may not deploy in side impacts, because occupants move toward the side of the collision. Therefore, front airbag deployment would not provide additional occupant protection.

• In an angled collision, the force of the impact may direct occupants in a direction where the airbags cannot provide any additional benefit, so the sensors do not deploy the airbags.

• Immediately before a collision, drivers often brake hard. Such hard braking lowers the front of the vehicle, causing it to "underride" a vehicle with a higher ground clearance. The airbags may not deploy in this "underride" situation, because the deceleration forces detected by the sensors may be significantly reduced by such underride collisions.

• The front airbags may not deploy in all rollover accidents when the SRSCM indicates that front airbag deployment would not provide additional occupant protection.

• Airbags may not deploy if the vehicle strikes objects such as utility poles or trees, where the point of impact is concentrated in one area and the full force of the impact is not transmitted to the sensors.