Compare Toyota Safety Sense vs Honda Sensing

Honestly, we applaud all carmakers who provide active safety technologies to help keep their customers safe and secure. Two of the pioneer safety package are Toyota Safety Sense and Honda Sensing, both containing several important features to help prevent collisions.

Toyota Safety Sense includes these features:

• Automatic High Beams: This feature improves night vision without blinding oncoming traffic. The system works at speeds above 25 mph to recognize lights in front of your vehicle to toggle between high- and low-beams. The system maximizes high-beam usage, which increases your safety.
• Dynamic Radar Cruise Control: This system maintains your speed until your forward space interval gets smaller – that is, the car ahead of you slows down. DRCC will react by slowing your vehicle in order to maintain your selected interval. If necessary, the system will apply the brakes to avoid a collision. The Full-Speed Range DRCC version works at all speeds up to 110 mph.
• Lane Departure Alert: Sounds the alert when you drift out of your lane. When coupled with Steering Assist, the system will re-center the car via small steering corrections.
• Pre-Collision System: Cameras, lasers and radar combine to alert you to obstacles in your path. If necessary, Brake Assist automatically applies brake power to help prevent or mitigate a collision.
• Pedestrian Detection: In concert with the Pre-Collision System, this system applies the brakes when it detects a pedestrian in your path.

Honda Sensing provides most of the same features, even if the names differ slightly. There is one big difference between the two. Toyota Safety Sense is standard equipment on virtually all new Toyota models. Honda Sensing remains an extra-cost option on the vehicles that offer it.

Both systems are well worth having. Only the Toyota package lets you have it for no extra money. You can pocket the savings or use it to order a higher trim level or optional equipment on your new Toyota vehicle.