This week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) investigated how the automatic emergency braking systems of the Honda Accord and Honda CR-V could have been accidentally set off. The NHTSA has received over 1,300 reports so far, 31 of which were about crashes. According to the report, fifty of these crashes caused 58 injuries. The ODI investigation includes about 2,997,604 cars, such as the 2018–2022 Honda Accord, the 2018–2022 Honda Accord Hybrid, the 2017–2022 Honda CR-V, and the 2020–2022 Honda CR-V Hybrid. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) is now looking into why the automatic emergency braking system in about three million Honda Accord and Honda CR-V cars was turned on by accident. The Collision Mitigation Braking method (CMBS) is what Honda calls their method. At that point, the first look was mostly at the 2017–2019 CR-V and 2018–2019 Accord cars. The first investigation began on February 21, 2022, after claims that the system had been triggered even when there didn’t seem to be anything in the way of the car. This was said to have caused “rapid vehicle deceleration, which increases the risk of a collision.” On Monday, April 15, the NHTSA said that the original ODI probe had been expanded to include an engineering examination to cover more ground. NHTSA documents say that the study currently covers nearly three million Honda Accord, Accord Hybrid, CR-V, and CR-V Hybrid models from 2017 to 2022. The NHTSA says that the ODI has been told about 1294 cases where the CMBS system was accidentally triggered. However, the exact number of complaints may have changed. Thirty-one reports of system problems were sent to the NHTSA, and one of them was a crash. At least 58 people have been hurt in 50 incidents. The NHTSA says that Honda told ODI about the possible issue. This means that some customers may not have had a “sufficient comprehension of the CMBS and its constraints.” The NHTSA website says that an engineering analysis can lead to a recall and is generally finished within 18 months.
