2006 Pontiac Solstice Owner's Manual - Page 33

Securing a Child Restraint in the Passenger Seat Position Your vehicle has a passenger's airbag. A rear seat is a safer place to secure a forward-facing child restraint. In addition, your vehicle has the passenger sensing system. The passenger sensing system is designed to turn off the passenger's frontal airbag when an infant in a rear-facing infant seat or a small child in a forward-facing child restraint or booster seat is detected. See Passenger Sensing System on page 1-37 and Passenger Airbag Status Indicator on page 3-25 for more information on this including important safety information. {CAUTION: A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be seriously injured or killed if the right front passenger's airbag inflates. This is because the back of the rear facing child restraint would be very close to the inflating airbag. Be sure the airbag is off before using a rear-facing child restraint in the right front seat position. Even though the passenger sensing system is designed to turn off the passenger's frontal airbag under certain conditions, no system is fail-safe, and no one can guarantee that an airbag will not deploy under some unusual circumstance, even though it is turned off. General Motors recommends that rear-facing child restraints be transported in vehicles with a rear seat that will accommodate a rear-facing child restraint, whenever possible. 1-27