Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
This looks like the &quot;Sensing&quot; feature that Honda has implemented on some of their other vehicles.  I just bought a 2016 Accord that does the same thing -- there&#x27;s a camera mounted on the windshield, another camera in the front grille, and a radar sensor on the front bumper.<p>Calling it &quot;self-driving&quot; is kind of a misnomer and I think the article kind of blows it out of proportion.<p>It will track the car in front of you and keep a safe following distance, keeping either the maximum cruise control speed you&#x27;ve set, or whatever speed the vehicle ahead of you is driving, whichever is slower.  It will accelerate or brake accordingly.  It will also attempt to stay in the lane by using the onboard cameras for tracking the lane markings.<p>The lane keeping assist is not nearly as autonomous as the article makes it out to be.  It does not like to work on sharper curves on the freeway, for one -- the system will disengage and tell you to steer manually.  It still wants you to keep your hands on the wheel.  It must be looking for very very subtle movements on the wheel, because the system will yell at you if you take your hands off the wheel for longer than 10-15 seconds.<p>All in all it&#x27;s a pretty cool feature for longer road trips (keeping in your lane can just get kind of tiring, even with cruise control) but it&#x27;s not the sort of autonomous driving that the article here paints it out to be.