My Honda Accord Touring has it if I have cruise control set. I can determine how many feet behind a vehicle I want to be.
Do you have to be in cruise control?
“Do you have to be in cruise control?”
No, not really...
The $1,000 sensing package has lot’s of great features while in cruse mode but it can brake the car to avoid a collision with a pedestrian or another vehicle if it senses a delta of more than 3 MPH. There is a button on the lower dash (think knee level) that can turn it off.
It activated on me two days ago — I was in a 25 MPH zone, slowing for a red light (likely doing 18 MPH or less) when someone in the right turn lane decided to shift to my lane (obviously did not want to turn right). The brakes went on and I slowed -— I was applying the brakes at the time but the sensors did their job.
I, like you, gladly spent the extra money for this package.
Honda legally does not state it’s sensing package will ‘stop’ a collision (open invitation to a law suit) though that’s the package will do.
Do you have to be in cruise control?
Automatic emergency braking is not a component of the cruise control, or even adaptive cruise control. They are two separate systems. And they have to be, because your cruise control is a user activated feature.