Advanced Honda Safety Features You’ll Find in 2024 Models

Honda prioritizes driving safety, and every new vehicle includes advanced safety and driver assistance, collectively known as Honda Sensing. Its systems relieve some of the driving burden by monitoring areas you can’t see and anticipating potential accident situations. Certain systems can actively intervene to protect you from a collision. We will examine some of these Honda safety features and see how they protect you.

Traffic Signal Recognition (TSR)

This feature uses a small camera that recognizes posted speed limits and other signs. An icon representing the sign will appear on your dash so you can reduce speed if necessary. Additionally other safety features, like Adaptive Cruise Control, will adjust your speed to the posted limit if required.

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC)

ACC makes long-distance driving easier by enabling you to set a speed and a following distance from other vehicles. When ACC is active, this system will continue at the desired speed until you intervene or it detects a speed limitation sign, as we saw above.

In addition, you can choose to keep a long, medium, or short distance behind other vehicles. ACC works to keep this distance and can automatically reduce speed if necessary to increase the following distance. Once the vehicle ahead increases speed again, ACC will automatically increase your Honda’s speed.

Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS)

This feature uses a camera to identify the lane line markings. Once identified, LKAS will warn you if you’re about to stray from your lane and aren’t actively steering. It uses audio and visual warnings to alert you to the situation so you can take action.

If you can’t react fast enough, LKAS will turn your wheel to direct you back into the center of your lane if needed.

Road Departure Mitigation System (RDMS)

RDMS is similar to LKAS but specifically watches for road edge lines. If you’re tired or distracted, you might not notice your wheels approaching the road edge lines. This can easily result in an accident. RDMS protects you passively and actively against this situation.

If you’re not actively steering toward the road edge, you’ll hear a warning tone from the system, and a warning icon will appear on your screen. This allows you to take over and steer away from the road edge. RDMS will intervene if required by turning your steering wheel to bring you back onto your lane. If steering isn’t sufficient, the system applies actively.

Your Honda model may have additional safety systems, like the Blind Spot Information System, Auto High Beam Headlights, or Cross Traffic Monitor. If you’d like to know more about these systems, contact us today at Stirling Honda in Longview, WA.

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