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2022 Honda Civic Touring
This week Two Guys And A Ride got the chance to review the 2022 Honda Civic Touring’s Drivers Information Screen and the Infotainment System for our YouTube Channel Two Guys And A Ride.
The Drivers Information Screen
Ok first of all I just have to say, this new digital cockpit in the 2022 Honda Civic is incredible. Honda has really stepped up their game, and honestly I’d have to say it’s on par with much more expensive cars like Mercedes, in terms of what it can do, and how easy it is to manipulate and control. Plus they have added some new features and taken away some old ones, all of which result in an amazing digital cockpit.
The normal layout of the digital dash has the tack on the left, driver safety systems in the middle and the speedometer on the right. You can configure this layout as having the tach and speedo as bar graphs on the far left and right, leaving the middle space a little larger. You still can see the information that was available inside the tach and speedo, but now their a bit larger but so is the middle portion of the screen which contains your safety systems.
You can further customize the appearance of the screen by using the Round Minimal selection of the left menu (inside the speedo) which will still give you the nice traditional looking round gauges, until you engage cruise control, and then they shrink up into the bar graphs described earlier giving you a much bigger screen In the middle
On the steering wheel the left rotary button controls the info on the left which is Media stuff, Radio, Phone etc, while the rotary button on the right side of the steering wheel controls the information on the left side of the screen which is everything but Media.
On the new 2022 Honda Civic they have taken away the radar sensors which were used for much of the safety systems, and replaced it with the front mounted camera in the windshield which is supposed to make the safety systems more reliable and accurate.
In The Blind Spot system, they have added the ability for the vehicle to detect exactly what is in your blind spot, a car, a motorcycle, a semi, and it will place the appropriate graphic next to the car on the screen so you know. That is the very first time I have seen that ability in any car, and I think consumers will really appreciate it.
Infotainment System
The infotainment system is a 9 inch (optional) screen and has bluetooth, AM, FM, Sirius XM, Apple Car Play, Android Auto, and a 4G LTE Wifi Hotspot. It has a 12 speaker Bose audio system.
Now the Infotainment screen while nice and functional, did not get the huge update the Drivers Information Screen got with the all new Digital Dash with two exceptions.
The first on is that the buttons on the side of the Infotainment Screen, Home, Back, Volume/Power, Seek FF and Seek RR are now physical buttons, which I know consumers will appreciate.
The second update is the inclusion of Smart Short Cuts. Smart Short Cuts is like an Intelligent AI Prompter. It learns who you call, when you normally call them, what you listen to and when, and where you navigate to and when. It will then give you prompts on the screen to suggest something. Say for instance every Wednesday you leave work and using the navigation system, you go the the local ice cream parlar, on the way you typically call your friend to meet you there, and while your driving you listen to FM 101.5. When you get in your car that afternoon after work, your car will put prompts like little messages on the infotainment screen asking you if you want to Navigate to the Ice Cream store, call your friend and listen to FM 101.5. It will also give you a chance to tell the system if its prompts helped or not, and the more you interact with it, the better it gets at making good suggestions. Kind of like Pandora Radio does when you thumb up or down a particular song.
The system itself runs like any other Honda Infotainment system and contains all the basic information you want, easy access to commonly used items scubas Radio, Navigation and Phone etc. and still contains the older items that many Honda owners have come to expect like an area to keep track of maintenance items such as getting a reminder to rotate your tires or change the spark plugs.
Overall a huge improvement with the new digital dash, defiantly something you’ll want to consider as it does not come on every trim level.
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