Drive2Life: How does Distraction Effect you?

For this activity me, my mom, and my dad all had to complete a task, ours was counting 85 cents, then we had to do the same thing with a distraction, we wrote a text that said "On my way, be there in 15 minutes." and both times we had to time it. Here are the results...

Me: Time Without Distraction- 17.25 seconds
        Time With Distraction- 30.88 seconds

Mom: Time Without Distraction- 23.03
           Time With Distraction- 40.00

Dad: Time Without Distraction- 19.1
         Time With Distraction- 59.06     <<<<< my dads a slow texter ;)

This activity showed how hard it was to focus on both things at one time and how long you are looking away from what you are supposed to be doing and all the same things apply when you do something like this while you're driving.

Th next activity I had to time how long it took me to do something, I timed how long it took me to send a text & it took me one minute, then i had to see how far I would drive in one minute going a certain speed.

30 mph: 1/2 of a mile
45 mph: 3/4 of a mile
60 mph: 1 of a mile

This activity shows how long you are really looking away from the road when you do something like send a text message. And if that still doesn't show you enough then think about this... As you can see you would go one mile traveling 60 miles per hour, so how long is a mile? 17 and a half football fields. You just drove 17 and a half football fields without looking at the road. That's A LONG TIME! Plus, as you can see even if you are going slow, 30 mph, you still drive half a mile... about 8 football fields.