Honda Sensing - yea or nay

[nymphaeles]

Honda Sensing, as we all know, is a suite of automated services to make our clarity's safer. Do you use all of them?

For my part, I use ACC regularly, including low speed follow (useful in construction zones/stop n go traffic). Sometimes I use LKAS, though the road I commute on has a few spots where it's too curvy for LKAS or the lane markings dissapear, making LKAS behave slightly erractically. I do keep CMBS on, but I get a lot of false positives on curvy roads, as it senses a car that appears to be approaching me but it's actually on the other side of the 2 lane road.

However, I've had to turn off Road Departure Mitigation after 3 unpleasant (and potentially dangerous) experiences. As I live in a rural area, much of my travel is on winding, narrow, 2 lane mountain roads. Once, some bicyclists appeared suddenly, so I swerved to the middle of the road (there was no approaching traffic, though there was a double yellow) to avoid them. However, RDM tried to swerve me back into them - I had to fight the steering wheel to avoid hitting them. A few days later, a similar situation occurred with a rural mail delivery jeep - the RDM tried to push me into that truck as I swerved to avoid it. On another occasion, I was going up a steep curvy incline on an interstate, and as I was passing an 18-wheeler, the RDM tried to push me closer than comfort towards the huge truck.

Fed up, safety features be damned, I've turned my RDM into notification only - no steering wheel jiggle nor torque. I feel safer now.

Anyone else had issues with RDM or other parts of the Honda Sensing Suite?

I agree with @Carro con enchufe in that RDM is rather very intrusive. I like ACC & LKAS, each of the works well and together they make it work even better.
Cheers

 

[KentuckyKen]

Y’all do know that you can set the the RDMS to normal, wide, narrow, or alert only?
That might make it “less intrusive” for you. P336 in the manual.
With the right setting, mine only activates when it should or when I forget to use the turn signal (no way around that one).