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I just bought the 2016 Civic Touring last week and it came with this. It certainly seems to be getting ahead of things to say it's self-driving. Your descriptio

I just bought the 2016 Civic Touring last week and it came with this. It certainly seems to be getting ahead of things to say it's self-driving. Your description is accurate, it's more of a helper than truly autonomous. I will say I was concerned, because there was a Car and Driver review where they seemed to indicate it had issues thinking you were drifting and trying to correct when you were fine, but I haven't had a problem. It detects the lane very well, and the cruise control works like a champ. I am glad to see features like this coming to less expensive vehicles.

massysett 11y ago
I have the 2016 Accord with Sensing and occasionally the road departure mitigation system will freak out and warn you even where there is no drifting at all. At one point on my drive the pavement goes from asphalt to concrete and the lane markings lighten, and this fools it nearly every time. Overall, the whole system was worth it for the forward collision mitigation system alone. It can be a bit of a nanny but it can save me from rear-ending someone. I find the lane keeping assist system to be of dubious utility. It can't completely drive the car--it doesn't like relatively mild curves on the freeway--so if it can't completely drive the car what good is it? The adaptive cruise control is nice for those situations when highway-speed cruise control is actually useful--which is to say, it's not too useful in a congested city. What would be more useful is if the thing could automatically follow the car in front of me in a traffic jam. I hope the government requires these forward-collision mitigation systems as standard equipment in a few years. They are that useful. The rest of it? Meh.
- libraryatnight 11y ago
  I'll have to test it out on a different bit of highway, perhaps one of our older more weathered areas where lines are less defined to see how it really holds up. I'm fortunate in that I usually only drive off peak hours, so cruise control is usually an option. I typically only use it on long drives, but my wife is a cruise control junkie and she loves the features on the new Honda. I'd agree, the most useful bit seems to be the collision mitigation, but I still find the other stuff cool :) Oh, and the lane change camera is pretty awesome (though not relevant to our self-driving topic).
  - massysett 11y ago
    > lane change camera is pretty awesome I didn't find this to be an improvement over the right side mirror. The optics of the mirror are such that there is practically no blind spot on the right at all. Cars on the right vanish from the mirror only when they are right next to my car--at that point I will see the car through the window itself when I glance over to the mirror. It's the left side that's more problematic. Oddly the left side mirror does not have a true blind-spot mirror. There is this left part of the mirror that has different optics but it doesn't cover the whole blind spot. So there is a point around the left passenger door when the car is completely invisible in the mirror. This could have been remedied either with a true blind spot mirror on the left (I think Ford Fusions have these) or with a camera. Instead there is neither. I might just glue a $5 blind spot mirror on there to remedy something that could have been standard equipment. Sometimes they made strange choices with this car.
- ghaff 11y ago
  I have to say that with respect to regular cruise control, I got out of the habit of using it years ago and don't remember the last time I tried it. I don't drive a lot of wide-open roads and even when I'm on rural interstates that are relatively low traffic, it's the case that I just got out of the habit. I'm all for collision avoidance systems but, for the rest, I think I'd need to genuinely (and relatively safely) be able to take my attention off the road and do other tasks. Maybe decrease the amount of mental energy in stop and go but the big win is being able to do other things than actively drive.

massysett 11y ago

I have the 2016 Accord with Sensing and occasionally the road departure mitigation system will freak out and warn you even where there is no drifting at all. At one point on my drive the pavement goes from asphalt to concrete and the lane markings lighten, and this fools it nearly every time. Overall, the whole system was worth it for the forward collision mitigation system alone. It can be a bit of a nanny but it can save me from rear-ending someone. I find the lane keeping assist system to be of dubious utility. It can't completely drive the car--it doesn't like relatively mild curves on the freeway--so if it can't completely drive the car what good is it? The adaptive cruise control is nice for those situations when highway-speed cruise control is actually useful--which is to say, it's not too useful in a congested city. What would be more useful is if the thing could automatically follow the car in front of me in a traffic jam. I hope the government requires these forward-collision mitigation systems as standard equipment in a few years. They are that useful. The rest of it? Meh.

libraryatnight 11y ago
I'll have to test it out on a different bit of highway, perhaps one of our older more weathered areas where lines are less defined to see how it really holds up. I'm fortunate in that I usually only drive off peak hours, so cruise control is usually an option. I typically only use it on long drives, but my wife is a cruise control junkie and she loves the features on the new Honda. I'd agree, the most useful bit seems to be the collision mitigation, but I still find the other stuff cool :) Oh, and the lane change camera is pretty awesome (though not relevant to our self-driving topic).
- massysett 11y ago
  > lane change camera is pretty awesome I didn't find this to be an improvement over the right side mirror. The optics of the mirror are such that there is practically no blind spot on the right at all. Cars on the right vanish from the mirror only when they are right next to my car--at that point I will see the car through the window itself when I glance over to the mirror. It's the left side that's more problematic. Oddly the left side mirror does not have a true blind-spot mirror. There is this left part of the mirror that has different optics but it doesn't cover the whole blind spot. So there is a point around the left passenger door when the car is completely invisible in the mirror. This could have been remedied either with a true blind spot mirror on the left (I think Ford Fusions have these) or with a camera. Instead there is neither. I might just glue a $5 blind spot mirror on there to remedy something that could have been standard equipment. Sometimes they made strange choices with this car.
ghaff 11y ago
I have to say that with respect to regular cruise control, I got out of the habit of using it years ago and don't remember the last time I tried it. I don't drive a lot of wide-open roads and even when I'm on rural interstates that are relatively low traffic, it's the case that I just got out of the habit. I'm all for collision avoidance systems but, for the rest, I think I'd need to genuinely (and relatively safely) be able to take my attention off the road and do other tasks. Maybe decrease the amount of mental energy in stop and go but the big win is being able to do other things than actively drive.