2016 Honda Civic active safety features help earn IIHS Safety Pick+ rating

It’s those active and passive safety features that one never sees, and hopefully never needs, that makes 2016 Honda Civic arguably the safest compact sedan in Honda history.

Thursday’s news announced the IIHS (Insurance Institute of Highway Safety) bestowing its highest safety rating,Top Safety Pick + on the 10th generation 2016 Civic Sedan.

While we don’t recommend taking your hands off of the wheel, or reading a book while driving, 2016 Honda Civic Sedan when equipped with the Honda Sensing ™ suite of active safety features, will help keep your car in its proper lane, autonomously apply brakes when conditions demand it, and effectively watch your blind spot, while adjusting your sedan’s following distance and speed, in stop and go highway traffic.

2016 Honda Civic Touring approaches Autonomous-like driving standards

Torque News recently experienced this bit of Honda magic while driving on the on the Freeways of Los Angeles behind the wheel of 2016 Accord Coupe, the most advanced and fun to drive coupe in Honda’s stable. The experience was life changing.

“North American Car of the Year,” and now “IIHS Top Safety Pick +” for 2016

The aforementioned Honda Sensing ™ available on all trims, (standard equipment on the Civic Sedan Touring) played a pivotal role in the IIHS (Insurance Institute of Highway Safety) awarding 2016 Honda Civic its highest possible rating.

This announcement follows the opening day of Detroit’s NAIAS (North American International Auto Show) and 2016 Honda Civic awarded “North American Car of the Year.”

Honda Sensing ™ features

Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™)1
Forward Collision Warning (FCW) – integrated with CMBS2
Lane Keeping Assist (LKAS)3
Road Departure Mitigation (RDM)4
Lane Departure Warning – integrated with RDM5
Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Low-Speed Follow6

Combined with Honda’s proprietary ACE ™ body structure (Advanced Compatibility Engineering ™ ) Civic scored a “good” in 5 test crash modes, including the dreaded small overlap front crash test. 2016 Honda Civic joins 2016 Accord, CR-V and the all new Pilot in earning the IIHS highest possible crash rating.

As described by American Honda: The 2015 TOP SAFETY PICK+ designation is reserved for vehicles that also have an available front crash prevention system that earns an ADVANCED or SUPERIOR rating from the Institute.

In the words of Mr. Jeff Conrad: "As these new safety ratings demonstrate, the 2016 Civic Sedan not only brings new value to the compact segment with its hefty upgrades to fun-to-drive performance, fuel efficiency, refinement and technology, it also delivers advanced collision safety performance," said Jeff Conrad, senior vice president and general manager of the Honda Division. "With its available Honda Sensing technologies, including our first application of Adaptive Cruise Control with Low-Speed Follow, the new Civic Sedan offers customers a suite of technologies unlike anything else in the class."

Not only is 2016 Civic Sedan arguably the most dynamic, best looking 4 door in North America’s compact car segment, according to IIHS it may be the safest. We look forward to exploring the 10th generation 2016 Civic Coupe Touring in February.