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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, it takes an average of 4.6 seconds for a driver to check their phone when they receive a text behind the wheel. That’s nearly five seconds where your attention isn’t on the road.
To prove just how dangerous that could be, Lexus put electrochromatic windows in an NX and put regular people behind the wheel on a closed course for a test drive. The windows use the same technology that will allow the Cadillac Celestiq to make its panoramic sunroof opaque to obscure the NX’s windshield and side windows.
This meant that for 4.6 seconds drivers weren’t able to see the road or ahead in an attempt to recreate the amount of time a driver’s attention is off the road when they choose to look at their phone.
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by Jake LingemanTechnology
It doesn t have a V8, but it does have windows that blind you.
In the car world, when we talk about a number like 4.6 seconds, we d all guess that we re talking 0-60 mph times for a Ford Mustang, maybe a Camaro or a Nissan Z. But today we re talking about something imminently more dangerous: texting and driving. April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, established by the National Safety Council (NSC) more than 10 years ago.
According to NHTSA, distracted driving claimed more than 3,000 lives in 2019, and the organization is calling texting the most alarming of them all. If you asked your average person how long it takes to send or receive a text, they d probably guess 1 or 2 seconds. But in the 4.6 seconds it actually takes, at 55 mph you re covering an entire football field with your eyes closed.