Texting While Driving
Situation
You're driving at 50 mph on I-40 in the middle lane (that's approximately 88,000 yards per hour).
Key Points
- You're travelling at 1,445 yards per minute (24.25 yards per second).
- You're using the iPhone 5s.
- The "texting process" was from opening the lock screen, to opening the messages app and texting LOL. This was what we timed and used as our data.
- We took 6 trials of data, and it took an average of 7.22 seconds to go through the texting process.
Data
Conclusion
If you were driving at 50 mph, and took your eyes off of the road to text someone LOL, you would have travelled a total of 175.1 yards in the 7.22 seconds it took to text your friend. We calculated this by finding the average distance that the car would travel per second if it went 50 mph (24.27 yards per second), then multiplied it by the amount of time it took to go through the "texting process" (7.22 seconds). During our tests, we made sure to use the same phone, and we made sure the car's speed remained constant.
