While new safety and convenience features will be announced later this year, we're hopeful for the
arrival of adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring, and a 360 - degree camera.
It is possible that some of the observed benefit for front crash prevention systems in avoiding rear - end collisions is actually a
result of adaptive cruise control.
The forward collision warning was not overly sensitive, but a
lack of adaptive cruise control and autonomous emergency braking is a bit of a surprise, and not a positive one.
Other available features offered are front and rear parking sensors, an advanced
version of the adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring, a surround view camera system, and cross traffic alert.
«With its available Honda Sensing technologies, including our first application
of Adaptive Cruise Control with Low - Speed Follow, the new Civic Sedan offers customers a suite of technologies unlike anything else in the class.»
This technology employs the combined
benefits of adaptive cruise control, brake light recognition, lane departure warning, lane keep assist, lane sway warning, lead vehicle start alert and a three - part pre-collision system which will adjust brake and throttle input.
There is also
options of adaptive cruise control, a forward - collision warning and mitigation system, a lane departure warning system, and blind spot and rear cross-traffic alerts.
For the first time, Civic can be equipped with Honda Sensing ™, among the most comprehensive suites of safety and driver - assistive technologies in the competitive class, including the first
application of Adaptive Cruise Control with Low - Speed Follow to a Honda vehicle.
In 1994, on a UK motorway, Jaguar and Lucas Industries demonstrated the
safety of adaptive cruise control and automatic lane keeping; both technologies are now commonplace on our roads.
We already knew that the 2015 Volvo XC90 would feature at least three new active safety features, including an improved pedestrian detection system, an active steering correction feature, and an innovative use
of adaptive cruise control technology.
For the safety conscious, the
inclusion of Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keeping Assist System, Road Departure Mitigation System, and Collision Mitigation Braking System as standard across all trims should appeal.
Much like the Accord Hybrid, the Clarity will come standard with the Honda Sensing suite of semi-autonomous technology
consisting of adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist and autonomous braking.
The Driving Assistance package will be an option, and include Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC that can automatically adjust the
speed of the adaptive cruise control depending on when bends, junctions, and roundabouts are approaching.
Higher trims can also take
advantage of adaptive cruise control with low - speed follow, road departure mitigation, forward collision and lane departure warning as well as blind - spot and rear cross traffic alerts.
Mainstream automakers have thus far focused their efforts on step - by - step
buildups of the adaptive cruise control and lane departure control, building blocks necessary to bring automation to the nation's highway system.
We've seen Audi and Volvo demonstrate traffic - jam assistance technology in the past — the idea is essentially a
mixture of adaptive cruise control and lane - keep assist systems, which allow vehicles congested in high - density highway traffic to travel safely at speeds up to 30 -40-mph without driver input.
For the car itself, the 2017 model of the Volt will receive more optional technology in the
form of adaptive cruise control and an updated autonomous braking system.
It comes with heated and ventilated front seats, 19 - inch alloys, LED headlights and Toyota's Safety Sense system, which
comprises of adaptive cruise control, pre-collision warning, pedestrian detection and lane departure warning.
Tech features at this trim include lane keeping assist, park assist, various driver alerts and a larger TFT screen between the gauges that displays the incremental
adjustments of the adaptive cruise control, as well as fuel consumption and range.
The driver can challenge today's level of safe autonomous driving if he or she tries to push the limits of lane centering on a curvy road, or uses the unblinking radar
eyes of adaptive cruise control to keep behind the car in front while composing a text.
Most likely this will be a higher - end car offering lane centering assist, although companies such as Chevrolet are driving down the
cost of adaptive cruise control especially.
I was disappointed at the lack
of adaptive cruise control in the Q50 I drove, but Infiniti makes that feature available as part of a $ 1,700 Technology package, which also bundles blind spot monitoring, a lane keeping system to prevent drivers from drifting over lane lines, and automated high beams.
The Allroad remains largely unchanged for 2018, with the
exception of adaptive cruise control with stop / go function, high beam assist and traffic sign recognition becoming standard features.