Be careful when you’re playing those games kids, as a new survey says that over a third of young drivers are more likely to go faster on the roads after caning their favourite driving games.
The BSM Driver’s Training School poll of a 1000 motorists claims that 27% of motorists aged 16 to 24 are more risk-taking on the road after playing games.
34% of those surveyed think that driving games can improve their real-life driving ability and develop their reflexes.
BSM's safety consultant Robin Cummins said the results showed an 'indisputable' link between gaming and dangerous driving, telling the BBC today, "With more than 200 young people killed each year due to speeding alone, it's crucial that they learn to 'keep it real' on the road."
David Perry, described by the BBC as the ‘multi-millionaire games designer from Belfast’ who is also currently designing a driving game, waded into the debate, adding, "Anything that affects your emotions will affect how you drive. The guy in front, the music on the stereo...those are the things that make you speed up, not a game you played an hour ago."
The BSM Driver’s Training School poll of a 1000 motorists claims that 27% of motorists aged 16 to 24 are more risk-taking on the road after playing games.
34% of those surveyed think that driving games can improve their real-life driving ability and develop their reflexes.
BSM's safety consultant Robin Cummins said the results showed an 'indisputable' link between gaming and dangerous driving, telling the BBC today, "With more than 200 young people killed each year due to speeding alone, it's crucial that they learn to 'keep it real' on the road."
David Perry, described by the BBC as the ‘multi-millionaire games designer from Belfast’ who is also currently designing a driving game, waded into the debate, adding, "Anything that affects your emotions will affect how you drive. The guy in front, the music on the stereo...those are the things that make you speed up, not a game you played an hour ago."
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sneakyduck 2 Mar 2007 12:36
1/6
Desire to carjack 3rd?
Joji 2 Mar 2007 13:27
2/6
Jeez, if I could drive I certainly wouldn't be driving like I do in Burnout. There's a world of difference there.
Music can get you pumped mind, but I'm sure most drivers can keep perspective.
16 to 24, that's no surprise really. = a lot of Chavs.
Music can get you pumped mind, but I'm sure most drivers can keep perspective.
16 to 24, that's no surprise really. = a lot of Chavs.
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tyrion 2 Mar 2007 14:42
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Joji wrote:
Jeez, if I could drive I certainly wouldn't be driving like I do in Burnout. There's a world of difference there.
I surprised myself a few weeks ago by finding myself over the limit and thinking I was going slow after a couple of hours of playing Burnout on 360. There is a definite perception altering thing going on.
TimSpong 2 Mar 2007 15:24
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tyrion wrote:
I surprised myself a few weeks ago by finding myself over the limit and thinking I was going slow after a couple of hours of playing Burnout on 360. There is a definite perception altering thing going on.
I'd blame kebabs... the salad in those things can seriously screw up your perceptions...
zoydwheeler 2 Mar 2007 15:58
5/6
I don't really like the word chav - isn't this just a middle class term of derision to put down the 'oiky' lower orders with their flashy designer clothes (from TK Maxx), their boy racer cars and their rather aggressive manners...
I would personally prefer to hear the word 'scrote' used instead in describing young tearaways - I'm not sure why, but this doesn't smack so much of class-difference... I'm fairly sure you have scrotes of all classes... Do they have scrotes in the aristocracy? Is anybody out there a member of that class?
I would personally prefer to hear the word 'scrote' used instead in describing young tearaways - I'm not sure why, but this doesn't smack so much of class-difference... I'm fairly sure you have scrotes of all classes... Do they have scrotes in the aristocracy? Is anybody out there a member of that class?
DoctorDee 3 Mar 2007 06:50
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Dave Perry wrote:
"Anything that affects your emotions will affect how you drive. The guy in front, the music on the stereo...those are the things that make you speed up, not a game you played an hour ago."
With all due respect to Dave (and not a lot is due after making that kind of knee-jerk defensive comment) a game you played an hour ago won't make you drive faster, if that game was Earthworm Jim or Cool Spot. But I know for 100% sure that during 1996 when the original Gran Turismo was about all we played for three months, my driving changed, I began to look for the racing line through every bend, I drove faster.
Burnout did it to me again.
True - music can do the same, Motorslug's Motorslug makes me drive like a maniac if I'm not careful. So can the guy in front - if he's in a Porsche or a Ferrari, I like to show him what real speed is all about - until we come to a bend, and then I back off for fear of my life - Cobras bite! And your emotions definitely affect how you drive - but to say a game you played recently, especially when that game is a good driving game, doesn't affect your driving is ridiculous - as this survey attests.
Maybe Dave is working on a driving game that doesn't stir the emotions at all. A game for the readers of What Car, not Evo or Max Power.