2006 Saab 9-3 Owner's Manual - Page 37

Safety • Never place anything on the dash or in front of the seat as, in addition to being a hazard to passengers, this could interfere with the function of the airbag in the event of a crash. The same applies to the mounting of accessories on the dash. • Keep feet on the floor - never put feet up on the dash, on the seat or out of the window. • Do not carry anything in your lap. 37 Passenger Sensing System Vehicles with a passenger sensing system have indicator LEDs on the facia. The indicators will be lit during the system check. When the system check is complete, either the ON or the OFF LED, will be lit. See Airbag warning light on page 87. If your vehicle does not have the indicators pictured, then your vehicle does not have the passenger sensing system. The passenger sensing system will turn off the right front passenger's frontal airbag under certain conditions. The driver's airbag and the side airbags are not part of the passenger sensing system. The passenger sensing system works with sensors that are part of the right front passenger's seat and safety belt. The sensors are designed to detect the presence of a properly-seated occupant and determine if the passenger's frontal airbag should be enabled (may inflate) or not. Accident statistics show that children are safer if they are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat. Passenger Airbag Status Indicator Saab recommends that child restraints be secured in a rear seat, including an infant riding in a rear-facing infant seat, a child riding in a forward-facing child seat and an older child riding in a booster seat. Your vehicle has a rear seat that will accommodate a rear-facing child restraint. A label on your sun visor says, "Never put a rearfacing child seat in the front." This is because the risk to the rear-facing child is so great, if the airbag deploys.