Honda Accord, CR-V Under Investigation by NHTSA Over Phantom Braking

Honda is facing an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Security Administration over concerns that 1.7 million of its CR-VSUVs and Accordsedans consumed between 2017 and 2019 could experience phantom braking, according to a characterize Thursday by the Associated Press.

Phantom braking is an teach where a vehicle equipped with an automatic emergency braking rules will apply the brakes without warning or provocation. This is dangerous because it can changes a loss of control and because sudden, violent applications of a vehicle’s brakes can increase the likelihood of rear-end collisions and damages, which have been reported in at least six cases with the Hondas in question.

The investigation seeks to concept not only the cause of the issue but its full scope and scale and will probable lead to a recall action. Honda says it’s cooperating fully with NHTSA to get to the bottom of this issue.

Of watercourses, Honda is far from the only company to recognized phantom braking issues, with Tesla regularly being mentioned in protests to the NHTSA. Our own experience with the quandary in our long-term test Model Y has been so punitive and frequent enough that it led us to recommend that our readers not buy a Tesla pending the issue has been fully resolved.

We asked Honda for comment but didn’t hear back in time for publication.