Sentences with phrase «distance of a football field»

The CDC states that drivers going 55 MPH while they are texting, take their eyes off the road long enough to travel the entire distance of a football field.

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It also has newer and better sensors that give it the ability to see what's going on up to a distance of two football fields.
The Pentagon's mad scientists at DARPA were hard at work building hypersonic gliders and flying cars in 2010, but the deadly invention 80beats readers loved was the sniper rifle that offered an accurate shot across the distance of 12 football fields, even with winds up to 20 miles per hour.
Currently, the unmanned system can work for distances around 1 to 3 meters away, but the researchers would like to make the system effective at 100 - meter distances, which is nearly the length of a football field, Dunn said.
The researchers observed them through binoculars up to six hours a day, from mid-April through mid-September, from a distance of about a football field away to avoid influencing their behavior.
The valley extends down from the crest into the crater at a slope of about 15 to 17 degrees for a distance of about two football fields.
The unique shape of the football, for example, contributes the dynamic nature of the ball itself, which can be thrown long distances in a tight spiral or bounce unpredictably on the field of play.
The LiDAR sensors on the Ford are actually sensitive enough to detect the difference between a paper bag and a small animal at a distance of nearly a football field.
The Excel Energy Center (MN Wild Hockey), Mall of America Field (MN Vikings football) and Target Field (MN Twins baseball) are just a short distance away.
When a vehicle is traveling at 55 miles per hour, this translates into a distance the length of a football field.
What they don't realize is that a lot of distance can be covered in just a few seconds; in fact, when traveling at 55 miles per hour, it only takes five seconds to cover the length of a football field!
If the average time a person's eyes are of the road when they're distracted is 5 seconds, you've covered the distance of an entire football field in that time.
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