Honda takes a comprehensive approach to all levels of active and passive safety in developing technologies, functions and equipment that support safe driving and reduce injuries.
Honda will continue to advance its innovative research – including intelligent technologies to prevent accidents – as we pursue safety for everyone in today’s mobile world.

Pedestrian-warning system that detects the presence of pedestrians in the vehicle’s path at night and delivers cautions to driver.

Reduces driver load and fatigue when driving on expressways.

- LKAS (Lane Keeping Assist System) monitors a vehicle’s lane based on the image captured by an onboard camera, then provides the appropriate amount of steering assistance required to maintain the vehicle in its lane.
- IHCC (Intelligent Highway Cruise Control ) users radar to measure distance to the car in front and maintain a safedistance.

Controls left and right movement of the headlamps in response to steering inputs, keeping the direction of travel lit when turning.

Adds side-slip control to ABS and TCS to maintain
vehicle stability when cornering or travelling on slippery road surfaces.
ABS (Anti-lock Brake System) , TCS (Traction Control System)

Increases brake pressure to boost brake operation when the system assesses a braking situation to be imminent.

Maintains consistent brake performance even as the number of vehicle occupants or load-weight increases.

Milliwave radar assesses the distance to a vehicle ahead. If the system detects risk of
a collision, it alerts the driver, applies light braking and operates the seatbelt pretensioner to reduce impact force.

Car-to-Car crash test

At the same time as maintaining cabin integrity and dramatically reducing direct injury to occupants, the crash compatibility body also reduces impact severity on other vehicles in a collision.

Uses impact-absorbing structures for the hood, fenders, bumpers and other parts to reduce head and leg injuries in the event of collision with a pedestrian.

Composite image of deployed air bags

Service employs the navigation system to call for aid from medical facilities in an emergency.

Car-to-Car crash test

Advances research into actual accident situations through the world’s first indoor vehicle-to-vehicle crash test facility.

Dummy construction closely resembles the human form. This enables accurate injury estimation during accident simulator, and the information is then used in the development of the pedestrian injury reduction vehicle body.

With our sights set on cleaner mobility, we have been involved in exhaust gas purification and fuel-efficiency developments for our powertrains –
from engines through exhaust systems – to produce next-generation clean systems that are always a step ahead of the times.
For the future, Honda will continue to aggressively promote pollution control measures, increased efficiency and recycling in all our activities.

A step up in intelligent engines that adds VTC (Variable Timing Control) to VTEC (Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control System), further raising both power output and fuel-efficiency.

Intelligent VTEC system that switches between combustion in all six cylinders and just three cylinders of a V6 engine. This yields high power output and torque together with excellent fuel economy.

Honda’s original Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control System that achieves both powerful motoring and high fuel-efficiency.

An intelligent system that controls two sequentially igniting spark plugs per cylinder to enable faster combustion at all engine speeds. This achieves a dramatic improvement in fuel efficiency.

Incorporates an i-DSI engine that deactivates cylinders during deceleration, and motor assist to realize excellent fuel economy and exceptional recharging efficiency.

Employs a VTEC engine as its main power source backed by motor assist to achieve excellent fuel economy. And the Honda IMA System-a hybrid engine system installed in the Honda Insight-achieves world top-level fuel economy at 36km/ *.
*Volume production gasoline engined car
(10-15 mode, 5-speed MT)

AGenerates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen to drive an electric motor. Honda FCX combines a fuel cell stack and ultra-capacitor with an onboard high-pressure pure hydrogen tank. The system achieves clean performance with zero emissions of CO2 and NOx.

Employs a VTEC engine running on natural gas to reduce CO, HC and NOx emissions to zero and greatly reduces CO2 levels compared to a gasoline engine.

In addition to the highly efficient combustion in all our engines, Honda employs specialized techniques to its exhaust systems and high-density catalyzers to suppress exhaust pollutants and achieve ultra-clean-running powertrains.

- Advancing waste elimination and recycling
- Protection of the atmosphere, water quality and soil
- Resource and energy conservation
- Implementation of ISO14001 environmental management system

- Focus on product recyclability from the development stage
- Pursuit of recyclability through production technology development
- Establishment of a network covering scrap parts recovery to appropriate recycling
- Expansion of reuse and recycling of parts
- Greater efficiency of parts dismantling