Cadillac 2011 STS Owner's Manual

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Black plate (66,1)Cadillac STS Owner Manual - 2011Passenger Sensing SystemThe vehicle has a passenger sensing system for theright front passenger position. The passenger airbagstatus indicator will be visible on the overhead consolewhen you start the vehicle.United States CanadaThe words ON and OFF, or the symbol for on and off,will be visible during the system check. If you are usingremote start to start your vehicle from a distance,if equipped, you may not see the system check. Whenthe system check is complete, either the word ON orthe word OFF, or the symbol for on or the symbol for off,will be visible. See Passenger Airbag Status Indicatoron page 4‑55.The passenger sensing system will turn off the rightfront passenger frontal airbag under certain conditions.The driver airbag, seat‐mounted side impact airbagsand the roof‐rail airbags are not part of the passengersensing system.The passenger sensing system works with sensorsthat are part of the right front passenger seat. Thesensors are designed to detect the presence of aproperly-seated occupant and determine if the rightfront passenger's frontal airbag should be enabled(may inflate) or not.According to statistics, children are safer when properlysecured in a rear seat in the correct child restraint fortheir weight and size.We recommend that children be secured in a rear seat,including: an infant or a child riding in a rear-facing childrestraint; a child riding in a forward-facing child seat; anolder child riding in a booster seat; and children, whoare large enough, using safety belts.A label on the sun visor says, “Never put a rear-facingchild seat in the front.” This is because the risk to therear-facing child is so great, if the airbag deploys.2-66