9:00PM Luke Plunkett | Some background: reckless driving and young deaths on Australian roads are a fairly big problem here. We’ve got lots of long roads, lots of kids with big cars, and a culture of people driving big cars
fast. It’s been a problem in Australian society for decades, but since games are around these days, they’re becoming a convenient scapegoat amongst those who should really know better (ie the police). Having armed himself with a German report on the subject, Superintendent Dave Evans of the NSW Police has told the Daily Telegraph:
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.
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