Texting While driving

                                            Texting While Driving

Purpose:

  In this lab, we intend to examine the amount of ground we would cover when texting LOL to a friend.

Diagram:

In this experiment, our independent variable was time, and our dependent variable was texting model and word chosen. 

We attempted to control the testing model by only having one person (Owner of this blog) use the phone, and running through the whole process on the same phone, a samsung galaxy S6. We recorded from the time of initial pickup, to all the way until the send button was hit starting from the home screen every time.

We ran five trials which were:

As the result, we calculated that it took us 10.454 seconds to text LOL to a friend. We had decided that we were going 40 miles per hour, which means that we covered 211200 feet in an hour. This means that every minute, we cover (211200/60) 3520 feet in a minute. As there are 60 seconds in a minute, we can further calculate that we covered (3520/60) 58.7 feet per second.

Due to it taking us an average of 10.454 seconds to text LOL to a friend while driving at 40 miles per hour, we can calculate that in that time frame, we covered approximately (10.454*58.7) 613.6 feet when we texted LOL to a friend.