Computer games fuel bad driving

Yup i agree, but it's less so for older men
 
I wonder if they thought about drawing a correlation between the people thet play racing games habitually are also people who are wanna be racing drivers. With a wanna be racing driver attitude you have people racing around the roads believing that they taught Michael Schumacher how to do it, and thus they are entitled to drive like idiots. Playing a racing game just adds fuel to the fire, subconciously the victories they achieve in-game gives the warped perception that they are actually as good a driver as they think they are. Just my thoughts on the matter. I don't think racing games is the only culprit here. If you ask me the study is a bit short sighted.
 
What a bunch of rubbish!
I never cause more than three accidents on the road after a session of PGR3.
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I would enjoy it if racing games (especially the street ones) had more realistic crashes.
 
Well I don't know hey...

Most of the boy racers out there don't game AFAIK, they put every cent into their car and souping it up. Of the ones I know, none of them ever had a console or even have a PC, although a few do but the majority will rather spend whatever cash on their car rather than buying a game or a console, from my experience.

There's one in Durban, an indian chap that's a friend of mine, he is into the souping up thing in a big way and he does game, but mostly adventure / RPG so yes, I agree with this

I wonder if they thought about drawing a correlation between the people thet play racing games habitually are also people who are wanna be racing drivers
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They tested these people on computer simulations... arent racing games also simulations?! Had they tested these aggressive racers in real cars, these "scientists" would see that the racers are more cautious.

Can't they spend money on something more useful?
 
How do they know they don't have it backwards? This type of research is often severely flawed. Firstly it could be more aggressive drivers that enjoy racing games. Secondly a similator is not the real world. Put me on a racing similutor and I am going to take chances I'd never take in real world. This suffers from the same critical defect as research that tries to link games or the media to violence.

It would also be interesting to know if the number of accidents goes up in proportion to the increase in aggressive driving. i.e. Are those who play racing games overall better drivers?
 
Telkomisaloser said:
LOL - I wouldn't want to cause as many accidents as I do in GTA : San Andreas
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Thanks to Grand Theft Auto I just walk outside grab the nearest car, beat the driver to death if necessary, maybe run over a few pedestrians and execute a couple of drive-by shootings to break the monotony of the drive to work. When I get to work I shoot the car until it blows up, then I just hide in my office until the police lose interest.
 
I am banned from driving my Clio 3 Sport for an hour after i play NFS:Carbon as i get serious racer-boy tendancies and wanna race through the streets dodging cops... ;-)
 
noxibox said:
Thanks to Grand Theft Auto I just walk outside grab the nearest car, beat the driver to death if necessary, maybe run over a few pedestrians and execute a couple of drive-by shootings to break the monotony of the drive to work. When I get to work I shoot the car until it blows up, then I just hide in my office until the police lose interest.
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Sounds eerily similar to my days...
 
I always wondered where taxi drivers took their tests... its on a computer of course...

Like playing an FPS game makes you more liable to go out on a shooting spree, now a car racing game makes you drive like an idiot or playing GTA makes you more liable for road rage...

I'm dangerous... just look cos i play computer games!

Perhaps this is just another theory to answer all of the human psycological questions.
 
Well, if it wasn't for racing games I would'nt have saved my car from a $h1tload of damage after going of the road trying to avoid hitting 3 dogs.
 
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