One day at a time. 👍🏻 I already know how I’m going to do the next test. 🙂

Well two things: it did miserably fail at stopping for cardboard boxes. 😂 however I guess my misunderstanding of how the system works is to blame. However, I have an idea already for test 2. Will work on that soon.

I watched an official Honda video a couple years ago about this. It showed the system working fine with a cardboard cutout of a pedestrian in front of it. The fact that you imply the truck won't stop if a human steps in front of it is terrifying

i tested this by drive my brand new Mdx the garage door and boxes. Of course it works, Acurawatch is more advance than for what we have for honda

@@tonyhuynh6789, AcuraWatch is nothing more than Acura's marketing name for Honda Sensing. Same suppliers. Same components. Same capabilities.

Real person try...Who have quick reflex to look go out if it fails....😊😊😊

Yes he is ! Very entertaining! Love it ! Great job !

can you elaborate? I'm considering a RL, most owners on the forums tend to say HondaSensing is TOO conservative on the RL not what you said.

Ok. I think I have an idea how to go about fooling the system and making it work.

@Gordan Nichols, the CMBS uses a radar and a camera - not sonar. The parking sensors use sonar, but those only work at slow speeds and close distances.

We’re you in cruise control? If so my 2021 RTLE will brake hard if unexpected merge or sudden stop from the car ahead.

Makes you wonder if it would do anything if a semi & trailer stopped or slowed on the freeway in front of you, and you weren't paying attention. 😬

@Yuriy Motso - Test this theory by wrapping the boxes in foil.

That’s my theory too.

But it's supposed to work against pedestrians?

@@rayray7946 How many people are walking around with no metal with them. You have keys, phones, watches, purses, etc.

@@BrianKilgoreFFT Oh I see. Thought you meant metal objects as in cars, trucks etc.

I hope to have an additional video coming soon that will have fully working brake system response

The parking sensors that beep when you get too close to a wall in garage are based on ultrasonic sound waves - they operate only at low speeds and short distances. The automatic emergency braking system and adaptive cruise control use radio waves that travel much farther along with a camera to see cars and people. The ultrasonic parking sensors are short-distance, low-speed warning devices only - they won't stop the Ridgeline. Honda recently started using the parking sensors for low-speed automatic emergency braking in the Accord, for example, but the Ridgeline doesn't have this feature.

@@zroger73 I have the Black edition 2021, , I wasn't talking about the brake sensors, I am talking about the collision mitigation sensors in the front bumper, also I have a bull bar that doesn't interfere with the range or anything else and the only thing I can tell you that when I was about to get a collision with that vehicle I did heard a long beep and the Ridgeline applied the brakes for me and stop at the point I couldn't accelerated until this guy move out of my way, what ever it was that in my case works very good I have the range set to the middle not short or far. That impressed me, the vehicle took the control in order to avoid the collision.

@@07Review, the sensors in the front bumper are the ultrasonic parking sensors - they are not used for the Collision Mitigation Braking System. The CMBS (automatic emergency braking system) uses a radar unit mounted behind the "H" symbol on the grill and a camera behind the windshield.

@@zroger73 ohhh.... yes you right... thanks to point it, you r correct, now the thing here is why your vehicle didn't sense and avoid the collision?, lets say if you were driving behind a flatbed truck loaded with cardboard, what would have happen? Probably it must be something wrong with your collision module, If never had experienced that before that would be something to think about or maybe is not calibrated right. Excellent video my friend and good luck with that GBU!!!

@@07Review, the Ridgeline drove through the boxes because: 1) Cardboard boxes don't reflect radio waves from the radar unit so it can't "see" them, 2) the cardboard boxes don't look like vehicles or pedestrians, so the camera doesn't recognize them as such, 3) the ultrasonic "sonar" parking sensors will detect cardboard boxes, but these sensors are only effective at distances of about 47 inches or less and at speeds of less than 5 MPH. Again, these sensors only detect - they are not connected to any other systems and cannot stop the vehicle. Now, in your example, if you were driving behind a flatbed truck loaded with cardboard boxes, the radar unit would detect the vehicle because the metal that it's made out of would reflect the radar signals - the cardboard boxes are transparent to the radar unit, but the radar would see an empty flatbed truck and apply the brakes.

You need to ask a honda dealer to re-adjust the system.

I actually have another project in the works with the test. Running some simulations and if it works I’ll make a new video. I want to see how good it really is.

Not sure what they were placed there for.

Real life it works. I just have not got to testing to larger more real objects. 🤣 it breaks faster than I can react sometimes.

Doubt it. Not with my Subaru Forester. 😂 Would smash through like a rocket. It didn’t have collision mitigation. Lol. I actually will be doing a new video. Have a method I think will work.

@@YuriyMotso no eyesight on yours? My bad - I thought it was newer. We have a 19 forester and the safety systems are great! Looking forward to your new videos!

Actually, it's more about the reflectivity of the object to radio waves, not the density. :)

Write! But reflectivity will increase with the density;)

I have that coming up once the rain stops long enough for me to film

I have a better idea. People have been commenting that the sonar looks for dense objects so I think I know of a solution. Test 2 coming up.

@@YuriyMotso, sonar is only used for the parking sensors - not for CMBS.

I wouldn’t say it’s a lie. The sensors just are not capable of reading the boxes. It needs more mass.