Video games kill driving skills, police say

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"VIDEO games allowing teenagers to show off in street races and crash for fun are contributing to a lack of responsibility when they drive real cars, police and experts say.

The games made teens think they were invincible and too often it was being left to police to save P-platers from themselves, New South Wales acting Superintendent Dave Evans said yesterday."

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Comments

By rapier @ Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:01 PM

As usual, police in NSW show how idiotic they are. They provide little to no details about the specifics of the "study" they use, and is already suspect due to the immediate correlation != causation logic. Just more of the same "we don't get the appeal, so it must be evil" attitude they have over here. Compulsory driving classes in schools is a good idea though, as long as it's used to teach defensive driving and not just propaganda.

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