The 2023 Honda Accord has earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) highest accolade, the 2023 TOP SAFETY PICK+ (TSP+) rating. The new Accord, a model that has long set the standard for midsize car safety performance, earned the Institute’s highest possible ratings in six out of seven evaluated categories. This includes Accord’s standard front…
As the snowfall in Erie gains momentum this winter, it is important to be mindful of the Honda Sensing safety sensors. If snow, ice, and other winter debris collects on your Honda, the sensors may be compromised, which in turn will make Honda Sensing unavailable. To keep Honda Sensing working properly, it’s important to understand where…
Honda Sensing is an intelligent suite of safety and driver-assistive technologies designed to alert your to things you might miss while driving. For you and your passenger’s safety, there are times when the system may not work: 1. Radar Sensors are Obstructed Honda Sensing uses two distinctly different kinds of sensors, a radar sensor located at…
Road Departure Mitigation System helps to ensure your vehicle only leaves a detected lane, or roadway altogether when the driver intends to. • If your vehicle drifts too close to detected lane markings while driving between 45MPH and 90MPH without a turn signal activated, the system alerts you with visual and audible lane-departure warnings. • …
To help reduce the likelihood and severity of a frontal impact, the Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS) and Forward Collision Warning (FCW) system are engineered to lightly brake and issue a warning if you don’t slow down when it senses you’re at risk of a collision. CMBS is automatically on upon turning on the ignition…
More than a million Hondas equipped with Honda Sensing are on U.S. roads. This suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies is already having and impact on the cost of insurance claim severity. READ MORE: What is Honda Sensing? The Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) issued a study this spring that indicates that Honda Sensing…
Cruise Control – most drivers have come to know and love this feature, especially if you’re the kind of driver who loves racking up miles on the highway. So how did Honda improve the already highly favored driving tool? They upgraded it to Adaptive Cruise Control, or ACC. Adaptive Cruise Control maintains a set interval…
Lane Keeping Assist System – or LKAS – is just one of the amazing features available in the Honda Sensing suite of safety features. It’s function is to adjust steering to help you stay centered in a detected lane*. Honda Sensing, which is becoming available on more Honda models than ever before, aims to assist…
