Volkswagen Atlas

Verification status: partial — supported by a secondary or prior-generation source.

VIN-GATED MANUAL OPENED 2026-08-28 with an owner-supplied VIN (VW resolved it to Model: Atlas). PROVENANCE CAVEAT (GATE RULING 1i): the manual is VW's DIGITAL edition, which self-identifies as non-binding — 'The information presented here may differ partly from the manual that was originally delivered with your vehicle. Please refer to the printed Owner''s Manual … as a binding source of information.' CURTAIN = TRUE, FIGURE-DERIVED: legend text is NOT row-enumerated — callout 3 of figure K23-0383 reads 'Side Curtain Protection(R) airbags above the front and rear side windows (both sides)' — but the figure draws the curtain module running the full roof rail with its deployment zone over all three rows, and the third row sits under the rear side glass the legend names. GV80/CX-90/Ascent evidence class. TETHERS = 2: figure K21-0228, captioned 'on the back of the rear seats of the THIRD-ROW seats', two anchors; the second-row figure K21-0229 (three anchors) is the control proving VW labels these by row. LOWER ANCHORS = 0: the ISOFIX/lower-LATCH topic prints only K21-0223, captioned 'on the second-row rear seats'; no third-row figure or prose anywhere in the chapter, and the support-base note restricts support feet to row-2 outboard — the GM anchor-omission pattern. REMINDER = TRUE, OWNER-VERIFIED FROM A MANUFACTURER VIDEO — WEAKEST PROVENANCE IN THE BATCH, READ THE CAVEATS. Source: 'Rear Passenger Warnings', posted by the official Volkswagen USA YouTube channel and placed by VW in its own '2026 Atlas' playlist; VW names the feature the 'Rear Seatbelt Detection System'. THREE CAVEATS, all owner-accepted 2026-08-29: (1) THE OPERATOR COULD NOT VERIFY THE FOOTAGE — video frames are not machine-readable here and the auto-caption track returned empty, so the 'checks every seat' observation is the OWNER''S read, not an independent one; every other value in this batch was operator-verified at 500-900 dpi. (2) MODEL-YEAR GAP: the video''s own description says 'your 2024 Volkswagen Atlas Rear Seatbelt Detection System' though VW filed it under the 2026 playlist — same generation, Palisade/CX-90 year-gap precedent. (3) NEW SOURCE TIER: this is the dataset''s FIRST value cited to a video rather than a page or PDF; video cannot be quoted like prose and is not checkable by the build guards. Owner ruled to record it with these caveats stated. SUPPORTING TEXT (checkable): vw.com''s Atlas trims module lists 'Seat belt warning for rear seats' as SE-standard equipment. CONFLICTING TEXT (also recorded): the owner''s manual documents the reminder FOR THE FRONT SEATS ONLY — its entire 'Fasten seat belts reminder' topic is one section headed '…for the front seats', scoped to 'the driver and front passenger', with no rear counterpart in the eight-topic Safety-belts chapter, and VW publishes no seat-status display figure. The video and equipment list resolve that as manual INCOMPLETENESS rather than an authoritative no. verificationStatus stays PARTIAL.

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