Safety Flashcards
Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) Body Structure
What’s the Benefit?
The ACE body structure is designed to enhance occupant protection in a frontal crash, making for greater driver confidence.
When designing their cars, safety is a priority. This design helps to reduce the severity and injury to the passengers during a frontal collision especially if the other vehicle is larger. Due to its design, some parts are meant to crumble during a crash while others stay rigid causing the crash energy to be absorbed and dispersed more evenly throughout the front of the vehicle instead of going thru the passenger compartment and minimize the impact to the the other vehicles around you. ACE structure is Honda exclusive and one of many reasons that Honda cars pass the NHTSA and IIHS safety standards with the highest safety ratings. You know you’re safe in a Honda.
around the vehicle clutilizes a network of connected structural elements to distribute crash energy more evenly throughout the front of the vehicle instead of the passenger compartment as well as the other vehicle.
Enhanced frontal crash-energy management helps to reduce the forces transferred to the passenger compartment and can help to more evenly disperse the forces transferred to other vehicles in a crash.
The design also helps reduce the potential for misalignment with the frame of an opposing vehicle, whether it is large or small.
Additional structural elements are engineered to enhance vehicle performance in small overlap frontal collisions.i
Vehicle Stability Assist™ (VSA®) with Traction Control (All)
What’s the Benefit?
VSA5 is designed to boost driver confidence by enhancing control and stability during acceleration, cornering and braking.
Vehicle Stability Assist uses a variety of sensors to monitor conditions and intervene to help reduce the possibility of skidding, plowing and other loss-of-traction events.
The system can reduce throttle and brake individual wheels to help restore the driver’s intended path.
VSA’s traction-control function helps maintain stability and allows the vehicle to accelerate even on surfaces with a split coefficient of friction, such as when one wheel is on ice and the other is on dry pavement.
Indirect Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) (Accord, Civic, Clarity, CR-V, Fit and HR-V)
What’s the Benefit?
The Tire Pressure Monitoring System6 (TPMS) helps enhance driver awareness of low tire pressure, allowing corrective steps to be taken in a timely manner.
In this system, the vehicle’s ABS wheel-speed sensors calculate air pressure based on wheel-rotation characteristics.
When the system detects that a tire’s pressure has dropped significantly below the recommended pressure, it alerts the driver by illuminating the TPMS indicator within the gauge cluster.
The instrument panel displays a flashing icon of a tire’s cross section with an exclamation point to alert the driver that one or more of the vehicle’s tires is significantly low.
Drivers should visually inspect the tires, then check and adjust their pressure when cold to the appropriate specification.
Note: Spare tires do not have TPMS.
Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) with Tire Fill Assist (Odyssey, Pilot and Ridgeline
What’s the Benefit?
The TPMS with Fill Assist makes it significantly more convenient to maintain the proper tire pressure, enhancing safe and fuel-efficient operation while helping to maximize tire life.
This system can inform drivers of which tire has low air pressure via the TPMS readout in the instrument panel.
Individual sensors in each tire monitor pressure and transmit the data to a receiver in the system.
The pressure reading for each tire is displayed in the instrument panel.
The instrument panel displays an alert when one or more of the vehicle’s tires is significantly low.
When the tire is being pumped up, the vehicle will automatically signal that the appropriate pressure has been achieved by chirping the horn and flashing the parking lights.
Drivers should visually inspect the tires, then check and adjust their pressure when cold to the appropriate specification.
Note: The spare tire does not have TPMS.
Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) (All)
What’s the Benefit? ABS helps avoid accidents by preventing wheel lock up and loss of traction , allowing the driver to maintain steering control during heavy braking and may help to reduce stopping distance.
Without ABS, when you step on the brakes really hard or on slippery surfaces sometimes that braking force is greater than the tires capacity to grip and if this happens the wheels can lock up causing the vehicle to skid out of control. How it Works is that the system continuously monitors the rotational speed of each wheel, if one or more wheels is rotating slower than others, which would normally cause the wheels to lock. The system directs the brake force away from The locking wheel so it releases and regains traction, as the wheel begins to turn again breaking force is momentarily reapplied. This process is repeated several times a second causing that pulsing feeling through the brake pedal, and as a result preventing lock up so that the vehicle stops sooner and remains under the drivers control.
Electronic Brake Distribution- EBS (All)
What’s the benefit? Helps the driver avoid accidents by reducing the stopping distance this ensures that if there is a collision ahead impact speed is lower
Whether you’re alone in the car or you have several passengers in the back and or luggage in the trunk, load on each tire will differ. With EBD, it can help provide optimal brake distribution to each individual wheel, the system sensors can detect the difference and reduce their breaking grip on the specific set of wheels with less loaded wheels, keeping the force at the wheels with the most traction and maintaining vehicle stability. Without EBD, If you were to press on the brakes, the brake grip on each wheel would be the same which would result in uneven breaking and the tires carrying the least weight are more proned to skidding.
