2018 HONDA ACCORD HYBRID — Complaint #1981744
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NHTSA Complaint about FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: DYNAMIC BRAKE SUPPORT/BRAKE ASSIST filed April 9, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1981744 (ODI reference 11581879) concerns a 2018 HONDA ACCORD HYBRID and was filed on April 9, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 9, 2024. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as forward collision avoidance: dynamic brake support/brake assist, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HONDA ACCORD HYBRID cohort independently describe similar forward collision avoidance: dynamic brake support/brake assist failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 HONDA ACCORD HYBRID shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Question 1. When driving the vehicle in straight line on the highway and I come up on another car in either the right or left hand lanes, sometimes (not all the time) the car breaks very slightly (but strong enough to feel it) even though there is no chance of a collision. If necessary, the systems and sensors responsible for this feature are likely accessible for inspection. Q2. Clearly, erratic and unpredictable function of an emergency breaking system is a safety hazard. Q3. I have not brought this to the attention of Honda. However, I am not the only Accord owner to observe this issue. Q4. No inspection of the system has been performed since I purchased the vehicle about a year ago. Q5. There are no warning lights or other messages presented when this happpens.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1981744 |
| ODI Number | 11581879 |
| Date Filed | April 9, 2024 |
| Failure Date | April 9, 2024 |
| VIN | 1HGCV3F91JA |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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