2022 Honda Accord Hybrid

The contact owns a 2022 honda accord hybrid. the contact stated while driving 55 mph, the vehicle was independently braking. the contact stated that the lane departure warning light was illuminated. the contact was able to continue driving to his destination. the contact stated that he experienced the failure on 5 separate occasions. the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. a dealer was not contacted. the manufacturer had been informed of the failure. the failure mileage was approximately 1,000.

On february 21, 2022, the office of defects investigation (odi) opened preliminary evaluation (pe22003) to assess reports of inadvertent activation of the collision mitigation braking system (cmbs), an automatic emergency braking (aeb) system, in model year 2017-2019 honda cr-v and 2018-2019 honda accord vehicles.  the reports allege that activation of the aeb system occurs while driving with no apparent obstruction in the vehicle's forward path, resulting in sudden vehicle deceleration. honda indicated that they were aware of a total of x,xxx reports that may relate to the alleged defect. honda provided analysis of the alleged defect and alleges that some customers possibly had an inadequate understanding of the cmbs and its limitations.  however, many consumer complaints allege that honda dealerships were unable to reproduce the condition or state that they were informed that this is considered normal cmbs operation. to date, odi has received a total of 1,294 consumer complaints of inadvertent activation of cmbs in 2017-2022 honda cr-v and 2018-2022 honda accord vehicles. a total of 31 complaints alleged a crash and 50 alleged an injury.  the total column in the failure report summary removes duplicate reports and shows the total number of reports with unique vins from all manufacturer, odi, and ewr data sources.  in some cases, there were multiple reports associated with a particular vehicle in which recurring failures were alleged.  in total, there were x,xxx reports, 93 injury incidents and 47 crashes involving vehicles with unique vins that may relate to the alleged defect. pe22-003 has been upgraded to an engineering analysis to further assess the scope, frequency, and potential safety related consequences of the inadvertent aeb activations. the scope has been expanded to include assessment of model year 2020-2022 honda cr-v and accord vehicles. to review the odi reports cited in the opening resume odi report identification number document, go to nhtsa.gov.

On february 21, 2022, the office of defects investigation (odi) opened preliminary evaluation (pe22003) to assess reports of inadvertent activation of the collision mitigation braking system (cmbs), an automatic emergency braking (aeb) system, in model year 2017-2019 honda cr-v and 2018-2019 honda accord vehicles.  the reports allege that activation of the aeb system occurs while driving with no apparent obstruction in the vehicle's forward path, resulting in sudden vehicle deceleration. honda indicated that they were aware of a total of x,xxx reports that may relate to the alleged defect. honda provided analysis of the alleged defect and alleges that some customers possibly had an inadequate understanding of the cmbs and its limitations.  however, many consumer complaints allege that honda dealerships were unable to reproduce the condition or state that they were informed that this is considered normal cmbs operation. to date, odi has received a total of 1,294 consumer complaints of inadvertent activation of cmbs in 2017-2022 honda cr-v and 2018-2022 honda accord vehicles. a total of 31 complaints alleged a crash and 50 alleged an injury.  the total column in the failure report summary removes duplicate reports and shows the total number of reports with unique vins from all manufacturer, odi, and ewr data sources.  in some cases, there were multiple reports associated with a particular vehicle in which recurring failures were alleged.  in total, there were x,xxx reports, 93 injury incidents and 47 crashes involving vehicles with unique vins that may relate to the alleged defect. pe22-003 has been upgraded to an engineering analysis to further assess the scope, frequency, and potential safety related consequences of the inadvertent aeb activations. the scope has been expanded to include assessment of model year 2020-2022 honda cr-v and accord vehicles. to review the odi reports cited in the opening resume odi report identification number document, go to nhtsa.gov.

On february 21, 2022, the office of defects investigation (odi) opened preliminary evaluation (pe22003) to assess reports of inadvertent activation of the collision mitigation braking system (cmbs), an automatic emergency braking (aeb) system, in model year 2017-2019 honda cr-v and 2018-2019 honda accord vehicles.  the reports allege that activation of the aeb system occurs while driving with no apparent obstruction in the vehicle's forward path, resulting in sudden vehicle deceleration. honda indicated that they were aware of a total of x,xxx reports that may relate to the alleged defect. honda provided analysis of the alleged defect and alleges that some customers possibly had an inadequate understanding of the cmbs and its limitations.  however, many consumer complaints allege that honda dealerships were unable to reproduce the condition or state that they were informed that this is considered normal cmbs operation. to date, odi has received a total of 1,294 consumer complaints of inadvertent activation of cmbs in 2017-2022 honda cr-v and 2018-2022 honda accord vehicles. a total of 31 complaints alleged a crash and 50 alleged an injury.  the total column in the failure report summary removes duplicate reports and shows the total number of reports with unique vins from all manufacturer, odi, and ewr data sources.  in some cases, there were multiple reports associated with a particular vehicle in which recurring failures were alleged.  in total, there were x,xxx reports, 93 injury incidents and 47 crashes involving vehicles with unique vins that may relate to the alleged defect. pe22-003 has been upgraded to an engineering analysis to further assess the scope, frequency, and potential safety related consequences of the inadvertent aeb activations. the scope has been expanded to include assessment of model year 2020-2022 honda cr-v and accord vehicles. to review the odi reports cited in the opening resume odi report identification number document, go to nhtsa.gov.

On february 21, 2022, the office of defects investigation (odi) opened preliminary evaluation (pe22003) to assess reports of inadvertent activation of the collision mitigation braking system (cmbs), an automatic emergency braking (aeb) system, in model year 2017-2019 honda cr-v and 2018-2019 honda accord vehicles.  the reports allege that activation of the aeb system occurs while driving with no apparent obstruction in the vehicle's forward path, resulting in sudden vehicle deceleration. honda indicated that they were aware of a total of x,xxx reports that may relate to the alleged defect. honda provided analysis of the alleged defect and alleges that some customers possibly had an inadequate understanding of the cmbs and its limitations.  however, many consumer complaints allege that honda dealerships were unable to reproduce the condition or state that they were informed that this is considered normal cmbs operation. to date, odi has received a total of 1,294 consumer complaints of inadvertent activation of cmbs in 2017-2022 honda cr-v and 2018-2022 honda accord vehicles. a total of 31 complaints alleged a crash and 50 alleged an injury.  the total column in the failure report summary removes duplicate reports and shows the total number of reports with unique vins from all manufacturer, odi, and ewr data sources.  in some cases, there were multiple reports associated with a particular vehicle in which recurring failures were alleged.  in total, there were x,xxx reports, 93 injury incidents and 47 crashes involving vehicles with unique vins that may relate to the alleged defect. pe22-003 has been upgraded to an engineering analysis to further assess the scope, frequency, and potential safety related consequences of the inadvertent aeb activations. the scope has been expanded to include assessment of model year 2020-2022 honda cr-v and accord vehicles. to review the odi reports cited in the opening resume odi report identification number document, go to nhtsa.gov.

On february 21, 2022, the office of defects investigation (odi) opened preliminary evaluation (pe22003) to assess reports of inadvertent activation of the collision mitigation braking system (cmbs), an automatic emergency braking (aeb) system, in model year 2017-2019 honda cr-v and 2018-2019 honda accord vehicles.  the reports allege that activation of the aeb system occurs while driving with no apparent obstruction in the vehicle's forward path, resulting in sudden vehicle deceleration. honda indicated that they were aware of a total of x,xxx reports that may relate to the alleged defect. honda provided analysis of the alleged defect and alleges that some customers possibly had an inadequate understanding of the cmbs and its limitations.  however, many consumer complaints allege that honda dealerships were unable to reproduce the condition or state that they were informed that this is considered normal cmbs operation. to date, odi has received a total of 1,294 consumer complaints of inadvertent activation of cmbs in 2017-2022 honda cr-v and 2018-2022 honda accord vehicles. a total of 31 complaints alleged a crash and 50 alleged an injury.  the total column in the failure report summary removes duplicate reports and shows the total number of reports with unique vins from all manufacturer, odi, and ewr data sources.  in some cases, there were multiple reports associated with a particular vehicle in which recurring failures were alleged.  in total, there were x,xxx reports, 93 injury incidents and 47 crashes involving vehicles with unique vins that may relate to the alleged defect. pe22-003 has been upgraded to an engineering analysis to further assess the scope, frequency, and potential safety related consequences of the inadvertent aeb activations. the scope has been expanded to include assessment of model year 2020-2022 honda cr-v and accord vehicles. to review the odi reports cited in the opening resume odi report identification number document, go to nhtsa.gov.

Nhtsa received a petition on or about july 18, 2022, requesting that federal motor vehicle safety standard (fmvss) 141 be applied to all electric and hybrid vehicles operating in the united states. the petition can be reviewed at nhtsa.gov under odi number 11486072. fmvss 141 establishes performance requirements for pedestrian alert sounds for motor vehicles. the standard applies to hybrid and electric vehicles that have a gross vehicle weight rating of 4,536 kg or less or are defined as low-speed vehicles. the standard became fully applicable to all such vehicles manufactured on or after march 1, 2021.on january 27, 2023, nhtsa opened defect petition (dp) 22-005 to evaluate the subject matter described in the petition. on june 24, 2023 and as supplemented on june 25, 2023, the petitioner notified nhtsa he was withdrawing his petition. the petitioner indicated that, based on his review of data, there is no justification for asserting potential benefits that could be derived from actions sought by my petition. based on the petitioner's withdrawal, dp22-005 is closed. closure of this dp does not represent a determination by nhtsa regarding the subject matter of the petition.