The safety features modern vehicles are loaded have allowed for greatly improving road safety in countries across the globe. But as with any technology, when those features malfunction or fail, they can represent a safety risk.
This can be very problematic, if only because the braking can come suddenly and without warning to other motorists behind. So far, 278 complaints have been recorded by the NHTSA; 107 cases involve the 2018-2019 Accord, and 171 cases the 2017-2019 CR-V. Indeed, Honda is one of 20 automakers that have agreed to a plan to make automatic emergency braking standard on at least 95 percent of its vehicles by 2022. The company said it intends to meet that goal two years ahead of schedule. Earlier this month, Honda said the Honda Sensing suite is now standard or optional on all new models. It is in use in nearly five million Honda vehicles currently on American roads.