The ability to keep yourself and others in your vehicle safe when you take your car, truck, or SUV for a drive is the most important feature possible. That’s why engineers at Honda have worked hard to create the Honda Sensing system in order to provide the maximum level of safety and protection to Honda drivers. If you’re in the market for a new car, truck, or SUV, here’s what you need to know about the safety provided by Honda Sensing.
What Is Honda Sensing?
Honda Sensing is an advanced system of sensors, warnings, and corrective systems within a Honda vehicle. It provides you with the maximum amount of information on the road and can offer assistance to keep you and others safer. It’s an outstanding feature that makes every trip you take in your Honda vehicle more secure.
What Are the Features of Honda Sensing?
The information provided to your Honda vehicle by its range of cameras and sensors enables it to accomplish a significant amount of safety tasks. When you purchase a Honda vehicle that includes Honda Sensing technology, you gain access to the following safety features to improve your security behind the wheel:
- Adaptive Cruise Control: With adaptive cruise control, your Honda vehicle monitors the road ahead of you in order to automatically adjust your speed when you’re following too closely to the vehicle in front of you. Once the road clears, your Honda automatically resumes your intended speed.
- Automatic High-Beam Headlights: Your high beams are an important safety feature that enable you to see better at night. However, they can also pose a hazard for oncoming traffic. With automatic high beam headlights, your Honda engages your high beams when you need them and lowers them when oncoming traffic approaches.
- Blind Spot Information System: Although Honda manufactures its vehicles to provide you with as much natural vision as possible, blind spots are a natural consequence of automotive design, and that’s where the blind spot information system comes in. It alerts you when vehicles moves into the spaces you can’t see in order to keep you more informed and aware on the highway.
- Collision Mitigation Braking System: While warning systems that alert you to potential hazards are important and beneficial, in some circumstances, you have no time to react quickly enough. With a collision mitigation braking system, your Honda vehicle automatically engages the brakes in an emergency in order to slow your vehicle even before you have time to hit the brakes.
- Cross Traffic Monitor: Another important consideration for safety on the road is cross traffic coming into your path from the side. With cross traffic monitoring, your Honda Sensing-enabled vehicle identifies approaching vehicles or people in order to alert you to their presence even before you can see them.
- Forward Collision Warning: With forward collision warning on your Honda vehicle, you receive notifications when Honda Sensing identifies a potential collision risk in front of you. This gives you the chance to slow down and react accordingly in order to avoid the dangerous situation.
- Lane Departure Warning: On the highway, maintaining your lane is a critical component of safe driving. Lane departure warning uses sensors to monitor your relative position to the lanes on either side of you and gives you a warning if you begin to stray into another lane.
- Lane Keep Assist: If your drift within your lane occurs more rapidly and you are unable to respond to your lane departure warning in time, lane keep assist can provide you with a helpful adjustment of your heading in order to move your Honda vehicle back toward the center of your lane. This prevents you from accidentally moving into a neighboring lane and creating a potentially dangerous situation for you and the surrounding vehicles.
- Road Departure Mitigation: Similar to lane keep assist, road departure mitigation helps keep your vehicle centered when driving along non-highway roads. If you drift toward the side of the road, road departure mitigation can help align your vehicle correctly in order to stay safely on the road.
- Traffic Sign Recognition: Staying within the posted speed limits is not only an important safety consideration but also a key way to avoid moving violations on the road. Traffic sign recognition can read signs on the road and alert you when you travel at dangerous speeds.
How Much Does Honda Sensing Cost?
For many vehicles in the Honda line, Honda Sensing is now available standard. Other vehicles offer Honda Sensing as an optional feature, which you may include as an upgrade if you decide you’d like to benefit from its features. Adding Honda Sensing to your vehicle, if it is not standard, typically costs approximately $1,000, making it an outstanding value for all the safety that it provides.
What Vehicles Can Include Honda Sense?
Honda Sensing is now widely available across a broad range of Honda vehicles. With each new model year, Honda has expanded the options available to drivers interested in taking advantage of the Honda Sensing safety technology. Vehicles available with Honda Sensing standard or optional now include:
- Honda Accord.
- Honda Civic Sedan.
- Honda Civic Hatchback.
- Honda Clarity Fuel Cell.
- Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid.
- Honda CR-V.
- Honda HR-V.
- Honda Insight.
- Honda Odyssey.
- Honda Passport.
- Honda Pilot.
- Honda Ridgeline.
At Rydell Honda of Grand Forks, we prioritize the safety of our customers. We love knowing that when you drive off our lot, you’re doing so in a vehicle that provides you with the fullest extent of safety technology in order to protect yourself and your loved ones. If you’re interested in learning about Honda Sensing, or shopping our lot of Sensing-enabled vehicles, contact us through our online form, call us, or come see us in person. We’re excited to show you how Honda Sensing can protect you and your family.
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