According to the manual, what happens when drivers react a half-second slower because of distractions?
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A.
Reaction time doubles.
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B.
Crashes double. Correct
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C.
Fatal crashes rise by half.
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D.
Stopping distance triples.
The answer is "Crashes double."
The manual states that a half-second delay in reaction from distractions doubles crashes. The D answer comes from blending the reaction-delay claim with braking-distance figures from other chapters that treat speed and skid separately, ending on a stopping measure instead of a crash count.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Reaction time doubles.
The half-second is the added delay, not a new reaction total; the doubling in the manual is of crashes. This answer reads the half-second slowdown as the whole reaction time, a habit of pulling 'doubles' onto the wrong noun.
C. Fatal crashes rise by half.
The manual's figure is a crash-rate doubling, not a fatality percentage; softening it to a fifty-percent rise misstates the claim. This answer substitutes a public-service-style fatality statistic for the manual's blunt crash figure.
D. Stopping distance triples.
The manual's figure is about how often crashes occur, not how far a car slides after braking. This answer blends the reaction-delay claim with braking-distance figures from other chapters that treat speed and skid separately.
This question tests your knowledge of Distracted Driving in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Distracted driving," p.53..
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