6/25/09

Text and Drive

Is texting while driving a dangerous idea?


 


We decided to conduct a test


 


Texting While Driving: How Dangerous is it?


Michael Austin


Car and Driver


 


Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman


reaction times while driving 70 miles per hour


 


Unimpaired         54 seconds to brake


 


Legally drunk      4 feet farther


 


Reading e-mail    36 feet farther


 


Sending a text      70 feet farther


 


If most drivers are slower to react


when e-mailing and texting


than when legally impaired…?

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