Chevrolet Silverado: Airbag System / How Does an Airbag Restrain?

Chevrolet Silverado 2019-2025 Owners Manual / Seats and Restraints / Airbag System / How Does an Airbag Restrain?

In moderate to severe frontal or near frontal collisions, even belted occupants can contact the steering wheel or the instrument panel. In moderate to severe side collisions, even belted occupants can contact the inside of the vehicle.

Airbags supplement the protection provided by seat belts by distributing the force of the impact more evenly over the occupant's body.

Rollover capable roof-rail airbags are designed to help contain the head and chest of occupants in the outboard seating positions in the first and second rows. The rollover capable roof-rail airbags are designed to help reduce the risk of full or partial ejection in rollover events, although no system can prevent all such ejections.

But airbags would not help in many types of collisions, primarily because the occupant's  motion is not toward those airbags. See When Should an Airbag Inflate?

Airbags should never be regarded as anything more than a supplement to seat belts.

    What Makes an Airbag Inflate?

    In a deployment event, the sensing system sends an electrical signal triggering a release of gas from the inflator. Gas from the inflator fills the airbag causing the bag to break out of the cover...

    What Will You See after an Airbag Inflates?

    After frontal and seat-mounted side impact airbags inflate, they quickly deflate, so quickly that some people may not even realize the airbags inflated...

    Other information:

    Chevrolet Silverado 2019-2025 Owners Manual: Crew Cab


    Put the child restraint on the seat. Pick up the latch plate, and run the lap and shoulder portions of the vehicle seat belt through or around the child restraint. The child restraint instructions will show you how. Push the latch plate into the buckle until it clicks...

    Chevrolet Silverado 2019-2025 Owners Manual: OnStar Additional Information


    In-Vehicle Audio Messages Audio messages may play important information at the following times: Prior to vehicle purchase. Press to set up an account. After change in ownership and at 90 days. Transferring Service Press to request account transfer eligibility information...

    Categories

    Passenger Sensing System

    The vehicle has a passenger sensing system for the front outboard passenger position. The passenger airbag status indicator will light on the overhead console when the vehicle is started.

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