Buick Enclave: 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 safety 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, second and third 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? for more information.
Airbags should never be regarded as anything more than a supplement to safety 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 the frontal airbags and seat-mounted side impact airbags inflate, they
quickly deflate, so quickly that some people may not even realize an airbag inflated.
Roof-rail airbags may still be at ...
See also:
Displaying the digital speedometer oroutside temperature
If you have selected the digital speedometer
for the status bar, the outside
temperature is displayed here.
► Press the
button on the
steering wheel to select the standard
display.
...
Rear Window Wiper/Washer
The rear wiper and rear wash button is located on the instrument panel below
the climate control system.
(Rear Wiper): Press to turn the
rear wiper on and off. The wiper speed cannot be changed. ...
Rear Seat Audio (RSA) System
Vehicles with this feature allow the rear seat passengers to listen to and control
any of the music sources: radio, CD, DVD, or other auxiliary sources. The rear seat
passengers can control the same ...