Originally Posted By: Sol
2.5 seconds is the officially agreed on reaction time used by civil engineers when doing traffic analysis and calculations for sight-distance.


2.5 seconds is the average perception reaction time. This is the recomended value from the highway capacity manual or the MUTCD. Its the time from perception of danger to the actual braking execution.
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j7 2012