NHTSA Complaint #11585243 — 2023 HONDA HR-V

I drove the 2023 Honda HR-V to pick up my teen son from school (about 20 min drive one way) around 4:30pm. It was January 2024, so it was cold. He has his learner's permit, so he drove home. We parked the vehicle in the driveway and walked into the house. Just as we entered the front door, I heard what sounded like a minor car accident (fender bender/glass breaking). I walked back out the front door to see what happened but there were no cars in the street. I thought it was strange, but assumed the sound must have been glass breaking from something else besides a car wreck and went back inside. (View of the HRV was obstructed from where I was when I went back to look.) We came back outside a few hours later to drive the car to soccer practice and that's when we noticed the back window of the HR-V had completely shattered. By this time it was dark outside so it was hard to see. We quickly changed to my vehicle to get my son to practice and my husband cleaned up the glass on the HR-V (the car that will be my son's when he turns 16). He did not think to take any pictures. But where the window once was, there was one large gaping hole and then fragments of shattered glass around the edges still in the frame of the back window opening, then shattered bits of glass all over inside the vehicle and on the ground. Thankfully no one was hurt because we had just parked the vehicle and walked away. But what if my NEW DRIVER was driving as that window shattered? Or even me as an experienced driver? This could have caused an accident! That's a real possibility and that's dangerous. It literally just shattered for NO REASON. There was no rock or sign of it being busted. Sounds like SEVERAL other HR-Vs have had the same problem. We are STILL waiting on HONDA to fix the vehicle! Paying insurance on a car we can't drive. My son can't practice driving the vehicle we intended him to use at 16. It's a mess. Please help! Honda needs to recall this product!