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If you love new technology, you'll appreciate Honda moving into the future, bringing Honda Sensing, a suite of advanced safety technologies, to cars for the people. Four Hondas offer Honda Sensing; we have three of them here. And some of the individual features are available as stand-alone options across a variety of new Hondas.

So, here are my picks for Honda Sensing's five coolest features.


1. Adaptive cruise control is a foundation technology. The future of autonomous cars is based on this important tech, using cruise control to help monitor and automatically adjust your place on the Earth in relationship to the car in front of you—always helping to keep you at a safe distance.

2. Forward collision warning uses a small camera mounted at the top of the front windshield to monitor vehicles in front of you. If you do nothing when forward collision warning sends you an alert, in comes...

3. Automatic braking. That's the function of collision mitigation braking, as in, "Don't make me have to stop this car for you!" Collision mitigation braking uses a millimeter wave radar sensor and front-mounted camera to help bring your Honda to a stop when the system determines that a collision is unavoidable.

4. Road departure mitgation works on roads with solid lane markings indicating the outer edge of a roadway, left or right. If your vehicle drifts too close to a solid line without your turn signal on, your steering wheel will vibrate like crazy, and if that doesn't get your attention, it will use your steering to pull you back in the lane.

5. Lane departure warning and its buddy, lane keeping assist, are for the wanderers out there. Lane departure warning can read solid and dashed lane markings, and it doesn't like it when you change lanes without signaling. It beeps and it flashes to get your attention until you go back where you belong.

As its name suggests, lane keeping assist is more serious. If you begin to drift out of the center of the lane without using the turn signal, it will automatically steer you right back to center.
Find videos and more Honda Sensing safety technologies at http://www.automobiles.honda.com/sensing.