Ford Escape: Front safety belt usage sensors
The front safety belt usage sensors detect whether or not the driver and front outboard passenger safety belts are fastened. This information allows your Personal Safety System to tailor the airbag deployment and safety belt pretensioner activation depending upon safety belt usage.
Refer to Safety restraints section in this chapter.
Front passenger sensing system
For airbags to do their job they must inflate with great force, and this
force can pose a potentially deadly risk to occupants that are very close
to the airbag when it begins to inflate. For some o ...
Front safety belt pretensioners
The safety belt pretensioners at the front outboard seating positions are
designed to tighten the safety belts firmly against the occupant’s body
during frontal collisions, and in side collisions ...
See also:
Sound controls and audio settings
NOTE
- SPEED VOLUME CONTROL is a
function that automatically adjusts the
volume according to the vehicle speed.
As the vehicle speed increases, the
audio volume automatically increases
to m ...
Preparing the vehicle
WARNING
The wheel and tire size of the emergency spare wheel/spare wheel may differ to
that of the damaged wheel. When using an emergency spare wheel/spare wheel the handling
characteristics ...
Safety Chains
Always attach chains between the vehicle and the trailer. Cross the safety chains
under the tongue of the trailer to help prevent the tongue from contacting the road
if it becomes separated from t ...
