2015 Ford Taurus Owner Manual Printing 1 - Page 40

Safety Belts 39 SAFETY BELT-MINDER™ This feature supplements the safety belt warning function by providing additional reminders that intermittently sound a tone and illuminate the safety belt warning light when you are in the driver seat or you have a front seat passenger and a safety belt is unbuckled. The system uses information from the front passenger sensing system to determine if a front seat passenger is present and therefore potentially in need of a warning. To avoid activating the Belt-Minder feature for objects placed in the front passenger seat, warnings will only be given to front seat occupants as determined by the front passenger sensing system. If the Belt-Minder warnings have expired (warnings for about five minutes) for one occupant (driver or front passenger), the other occupant can still activate the Belt-Minder feature. If...You and the front seat passenger buckle your safety belts before you switch the ignition on or less than 1-2 minutes elapse after you switch the ignition on...You or the front seat passenger do not buckle your safety belts before your vehicle reaches at least 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and 1-2 minutes elapse after you switch the ignition...Then...The Belt-Minder feature will not activate. The Belt-Minder feature activates, the safety belt warning light illuminates and a warning tone sounds for 6 seconds every 25 seconds, repeating for about 5 minutes or until you and the front seat passenger buckle your safety belts. The Belt-Minder feature activates, the The driver or front passenger safety belt becomes unbuckled safety belt warning light illuminates for about one minute while the and a warning tone sounds for vehicle is traveling at least 6 seconds every 25 seconds, repeating for about 5 minutes or until you and 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and more than 1-2 minutes elapse after the front seat passenger buckle your safety belts. you switch the ignition on... 2015 Taurus Owners Guide gf, 1st Printing, April 2014 USA (fus)