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Australian Police Link Poor Teen Driving to...
Topic Started: Nov 18 2008, 05:30 PM (61 Views)
Purple Marauder
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The Australian police are blaming poor driving by teenagers on videogames. Daily Telegraph quotes New South Wales police acting superintendent Dave Evans as saying:

"Video games can have a negative impact on young drivers because it increases their complacency and their indulgence in risk-taking behaviour. In games you race, you crash and it is a matter of pressing the buttons and off you go again. In real life it doesn't work that way, you can be killed."

This is the dumbest thing I've read all month. I suppose Gears of War 2 will help me become an expert marksman and combatant. Guitar Hero: World Tour will obviously help me shred like Malmsteen. On the downside, my poor Crackdown performance has clearly impacted my accuracy when it come to jumping from building to building. I'm going to call my Aussie friends to tease them about having dolts like Dave Evans enforcing their country's safety. Idiot.
Edited by Purple Marauder, Nov 19 2008, 12:17 AM.
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Kraul

Did you know that before video games, every teenager drove perfectly?

True story.
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Nubochanozep
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I don't get what you disagree with.
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Nubochanozep
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I mean, fuck, it's pretty obvious to me that

If a lot of people play games that encourage some form of behaviour
then
statistics say some will replicate that behaviour.

it's not rocket science, its er, cognitive science, but it's still accepted fact. monkey see monkey do. before i watched formula 1 i knew less about aggressive driving. now i know a little more. i'm sometimes tempted to drive like an idiot, but i restrain myself because i dont want to die that way. others aren't able to restrain. formula 1 is a sport, yes, but it applies to video games too.

speds.

EDIT: What I PARTICULARLY enjoy is the way that this monkey see monkey do behaviour is pretty well observed among psychologist type dudes, but experts like 6SW members clearly know better than people who've actually done experiments on them. whatever! :lol:
Edited by Nubochanozep, Nov 18 2008, 11:02 PM.
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Kraul

Except that they seem to ignore that teenagers have been terrible drivers pretty much since teenagers have been driving cars. And that not all teenagers play video games.

Now if they showed some of the research showing that driving skills have deteriorated on average for a certain amount of time with certain game releases or what have you, then maybe their claim would have some weight. But... I don't see anything. It looks like just some random superintendent giving his random opinion on what he thinks causes teenagers to suck at driving, completely ignoring that teenagers have always sucked at driving.

Maybe we don't have any more credibility than these people in these articles, btw, but at least we don't enthusiastically nod our heads and give the thumbs up to anyone with "Dr.", "Officer", or any other official title before their name because obviously authority figures are never wrong.
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Haha, F1 = aggressive driving. Please, Montoya practically got kicked out of the league because he was aggressive.

But I somewhat agree. Actually playing years upon years of NASCAR games helped me with gauging how quick I can go/have to go into turns, but that's about it. When I got onto the road, almost everything else went out the window. Although Vice City has had a bit more impact... it's something about coming inches from running into a Haitian and Taxi cab that refines your driving... and ability to hit large groups of people with your car. :P
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