2003 Cadillac Escalade Owner's Manual - Page 90

The passenger sensing system is designed to turn off the right front passenger's frontal air bag if: 0 the right front passenger seat is unoccupied, the system determines that an infant is present in a rear-facing infant seat, the system determines that a small child is present in a forward-facing child restraint, the system determines that a small child is present in a booster seat, a right front passenger takes hidher weight off of the seat for a period of time. the right front passenger seat is occupied by a smaller person, such as a child who has outgrown child restraints. or if there is a critical problem with the air bag system or the passenger sensing system. A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be seriously injured or killed if the right front passenger's air bag inflates. This is because the back of the rear-facing child restraint would be very close to the inflating air bag. Be sure the air bag is off before using a rear-facing child restraint in the right front seat position. Even though the passenger sensing system is designed to turnoff the passenger's frontal air bag if the system detects a rear-facing child restraint, no sensing system is fail-safe, and no one can guarantee that an air bag will not deploy under some unusual circumstance, even though it is turned off. General Motors, therefore, recommends that rear-facing child restraints be secured in the rear seat whenever possible, even if the air bag isoff. e 1-83