Factors Affecting Thinking Distance & Reaction Time Flashcards
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Name three things that can increase a driver's reaction time.
Tiredness, drugs and alcohol (distractions also affect the ability to react).
Give two examples of distractions that could increase a driver's thinking distance.
Using a mobile phone and talking to passengers (also loud music).
Apart from reaction time, what factor affects a vehicle's thinking distance?
The speed of the vehicle, because thinking distance speed reaction time.
True or false? Drinking alcohol increases a driver's braking distance.
False. Alcohol increases reaction time, so it increases the thinking distance (and therefore the stopping distance).
True or false? If data show that mean reaction time increases after drinking alcohol, then every person's reaction time must have increased.
False. A mean can increase even though the change is not the same for all people.