Simple but Brilliant Features - 2016 Honda Civic Long-Term Road Test

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Simple but Brilliant Features - 2016 Honda Civic Long-Term Road Test

The 2016 Honda Civic has a couple simple features that significantly improve convenience and ease navigational anxiety.

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kirkhilles1

I can't comment on Navigation as I don't have the Touring (and I only use Google Maps), but I will say that the walk away feature is SO NICE. You close all doors, it beeps. You walk away it beeps again and locks. You come back and touch the door handles and it unlocks. Get in, put your foot on the brake and push the Start button. No getting your keys out. Love it. Now, the only hassle is getting your phone out to connect for AA.

yellowbal

Do people like the beeping? I think it's obnoxious. It's easy enough to see the lights flashing without contributing to noise pollution. The worse offenders are vehicles that use the horn for the confirmation beep, then some jerks like to click five times to hear their beep. Lesser offenders use a different noise but cannot be disabled without a dealer visit.

misterfusion

@yellowbal I still prefer these built-in systems to aftermarket systems that trigger the alarm whenever a truck, motorcycle, or anything louder than a hair dryer passes by. Proximity and motion-sensing alarms are useless in cars, and their painful demise cannot come soon enough.

yellowbal

misterfusion said:

@yellowbal I still prefer these built-in systems to aftermarket systems that trigger the alarm whenever a truck, motorcycle, or anything louder than a hair dryer passes by. Proximity and motion-sensing alarms are useless in cars, and their painful demise cannot come soon enough.

I wish both would be limited. Originally the door lock noise was probably for advertising that fancy new car feature with a remote to lock/unlock instead of using keys like peasants. Now... Quiet nature reserve, cemetery, hospice parking lot.. beep/honk.

schen72

I see in the picture of the nav screen that the driver and passenger temperature is not displaying. This seems to be one of the known glitches in the new Civic's infotainment system. I believe there is a software update available from the dealer for this.

schen72

yellowbal said:

Do people like the beeping? I think it's obnoxious. It's easy enough to see the lights flashing without contributing to noise pollution. The worse offenders are vehicles that use the horn for the confirmation beep, then some jerks like to click five times to hear their beep. Lesser offenders use a different noise but cannot be disabled without a dealer visit.

Most Hondas have a setting buried deep that allows you to disable the confirmation beep. On top of that, Honda's beep is not too loud. When driving a rental X3, that car's confirmation beep is obnoxiously loud.