4:39 PM on 03.19.2007
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Faith
Apparently my car accident Friday night could have been caused by something other than the other car driver being drunk or severely lacking the brain cells to drive a vehicle on the right side of the road.
A study by German researchers released yesterday in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied showed that people that play video games may be more likely to engage in risky driving practices and get into more car accidents than non-gamers.
Researchers questioned over 198 males and females and those who reported playing video games reported more acts of reckless driving and more car accidents. The males especially reported more reckless driving if they were specifically playing driving simulators on their consoles.
"Driving actions in these games often include competitive and reckless driving, speeding and crashing into other cars or pedestrians, or performing risky stunts with the vehicle. In short, most actions in racing games imply a very high risk of having an accident or severe crash in a highly realistic virtual road traffic environment," the researchers wrote.
Researchers also did tests on people playing shooting games and found their aggression levels were elevated after play. The research group believes that not only violent games cause harmful behavior in players, but any game where the rules of normal day to day life do not apply can be a bad influence. Parents are strongly suggest to discuss these games and the rules of the road with their children.
So the other driver could have been possibly driving down the middle of the road at 2:30 in the morning during a bad snow storm because too many video games have made he believe that life has a restart button. Great, now maybe I should show him that if I take him down with a head shot, he doesn't actually disappear and I don't really get any points for it. Though I wish I could.
[Via Reuters]
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yeah, and he's only totaled his car... twice
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070319/091125.shtml
I just thought I'd post the story since it gave me a chance to bitch about my accident.
pic taken with my phone
but you know, maybe racing games really do make us bad people. I mean, i don't have any speeding tickets, traffic violations, and haven't caused any collisions.
When will this end???
I can't remember where, but in this study they didn't play "Good Games" like Gran Turismo that reward good driving. They played Burn Out... so they drove like crap.
Also, Correlation != Causality.
Also Cocks.
it just so happens that this translates to real world experiences.
I think the key part of the whole crazy video game driving = crazy real life driving is purely if that person is a retard or not.
http://forums.h-body.org/files/fwd_sucks_161.jpg
a couple weeks later I got new tires on my car [FWD], and they rotated my low tread tires to the back. Was turning at a light where there was a lot of sand because of construction near by. Back end slid right out, and saved my car from going into a ditch. Then further down the road some idiot was just driving down the road and casually drove right into a ditch, haha. I swear I live in Red Neck Nation, Avg. IQ 40.