“A total time of two seconds looking away from the forward roadway is when people start to get in trouble,” explained Sheila “Charlie” Klauer, a researcher at VTTI and the study’s project manager. “That’s when they get to the point when they are starting to lose track of what’s going on in front of them.” The two-second window is not technically related to the “two-second rule” for following distance, but the comparison is instructive.
