Curious if other Accord owners are experiencing their cars being "fooled" occasionally. Here is short list of things (in highest importance/concern order) I have noticed in the 1.5 months I have owned my 2018 Accord Hybrid Touring...
1) Had my first "car decided that it needed to hit the brakes when I thought that was exactly the WRONG thing to do for the situation" last night. It was on a 2 lane highway where speed limit changes from 55 to 65, car ahead in right lane pulling a large trailer at night on wet road only going about 45 with me and another vehicle nearly side by side coming up on the slow mover who is also not completely staying in the lane (trailer wheels on the white line at times but still plenty of lane). I sped up to make sure that I would get past the slow guy in the right lane because I didn't want to be competing with other car who I suspected would also want to pass the sluggish moving vehicle. Just as I'm about to pass the car beeps and the orange rectangle of death comes on and I go from accelerating to decelerating which of course throws off the car that had been near me and assumed I was passing and he could get in the left lane to pass also. The car acted like it was a kid in driver's ed - oh, there's something coming closer to me, I better slam on the brakes without thinking about other cars in the situation. I steered further left (used more of the left shoulder than I'd like to) and continued to accelerate and within a couple of seconds it allowed me to speed up to get around the obstacle. My son had warned me that he turned off his "avoidance" options on his Clarity because of similar situations (he drives in Bay Area traffic regularly, I am out in the sticks 97% of the time). Potentially a big problem/scare.
2) Lane Keeping Assist seems to get confused by highway/freeway off ramps and any time lanes either get added or subtracted to the current roadway. For example, driving along the highway when an off ramp caused the white line on the right side of the road to veer, the car seems to panic for a split second, sometimes with the lane departure light or an LKAS lane figure coming on orange in the heads up display. Where the highway goes from 2 lanes to 3 temporarily (to allow traffic coming in from a left side entrance), there are similar problems both when the lane widens before it is split by a new dotted white line, and then again when they merge further down the road because people entering would have enough time to get up to highway speeds by then. A mid-sized annoyance/scare.
3) Any traffic sign with numbers on it makes the car think that's the current speed limit. "Trucks 55" on a 70 MPH road make the car suggest the limit is 55 for me; "School zone 25 when children present" make it think it's 25 even at 11pm. Obviously a minor inconvenience, but really how hard is it to update software to be checking for these VERY common signs - I get that temporary (e.g. some of the things that are put up in construction zones) and uncommon sign configurations might fool it.
Wondering what y'all have seen/experienced; these and/or other concerns that I may not have yet but should watch for... Thanks.
1) Had my first "car decided that it needed to hit the brakes when I thought that was exactly the WRONG thing to do for the situation" last night. It was on a 2 lane highway where speed limit changes from 55 to 65, car ahead in right lane pulling a large trailer at night on wet road only going about 45 with me and another vehicle nearly side by side coming up on the slow mover who is also not completely staying in the lane (trailer wheels on the white line at times but still plenty of lane). I sped up to make sure that I would get past the slow guy in the right lane because I didn't want to be competing with other car who I suspected would also want to pass the sluggish moving vehicle. Just as I'm about to pass the car beeps and the orange rectangle of death comes on and I go from accelerating to decelerating which of course throws off the car that had been near me and assumed I was passing and he could get in the left lane to pass also. The car acted like it was a kid in driver's ed - oh, there's something coming closer to me, I better slam on the brakes without thinking about other cars in the situation. I steered further left (used more of the left shoulder than I'd like to) and continued to accelerate and within a couple of seconds it allowed me to speed up to get around the obstacle. My son had warned me that he turned off his "avoidance" options on his Clarity because of similar situations (he drives in Bay Area traffic regularly, I am out in the sticks 97% of the time). Potentially a big problem/scare.
2) Lane Keeping Assist seems to get confused by highway/freeway off ramps and any time lanes either get added or subtracted to the current roadway. For example, driving along the highway when an off ramp caused the white line on the right side of the road to veer, the car seems to panic for a split second, sometimes with the lane departure light or an LKAS lane figure coming on orange in the heads up display. Where the highway goes from 2 lanes to 3 temporarily (to allow traffic coming in from a left side entrance), there are similar problems both when the lane widens before it is split by a new dotted white line, and then again when they merge further down the road because people entering would have enough time to get up to highway speeds by then. A mid-sized annoyance/scare.
3) Any traffic sign with numbers on it makes the car think that's the current speed limit. "Trucks 55" on a 70 MPH road make the car suggest the limit is 55 for me; "School zone 25 when children present" make it think it's 25 even at 11pm. Obviously a minor inconvenience, but really how hard is it to update software to be checking for these VERY common signs - I get that temporary (e.g. some of the things that are put up in construction zones) and uncommon sign configurations might fool it.
Wondering what y'all have seen/experienced; these and/or other concerns that I may not have yet but should watch for... Thanks.
