Gamers are bad drivers, study finds

How many car accidents have you directly caused?

  • 1

    Votes: 5 15.2%

  • 2

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 3

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • 4

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 5

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 6+

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Zero

    Votes: 27 81.8%
  • Total voters
    33
Only accidents I've been responsible for was on my motorcycle. Both times it was just a fail on my part and no other vehicles were involved.
 
Didn't another study find that gamers have better reaction timing also in which case surely gamers would be safer to drive with.

Plus those figures point to reckless driving as opposed to bad driving.
 
My two friends are reckless drivers and not one of them plays games OMW who knew there could be non gamers that drive reckless.
 
I have been in 3 car accidents of which 1 was considered serious and none of them were caused by me.

Funny enough the serious accident I was in was caused by a girl who smashed into the back of my BMW doing well over 110km/h in a 60 zone while I was standing still with my foot on the brake.
 
Bitch please....

I crash cars like you guys buy games :) I can't fill in the poll though, because I can't remember who caused the accidents I was in, it was waayy too late and I was waaayyy too drunk...
 
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78 percent admitted to speeding;
26 percent to tailgating;
23 percent to failure to yield;
25 percent to weaving in and out of traffic;
20 percent to running red lights;
19 percent to ignoring stop signs;
13 percent to crossing a double line;
71 percent to speeding through yellow lights;
27 percent to not using a seatbelt.
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I'd love to see the stats of their control group, I have a feeling that there's probably not much of a difference in the percentages.
 
Problem is people drive too slow!
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But seriously, people, let’s not be so quick to point fingers. I can’t think of a single game that promotes not wearing a seatbelt.
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Interesting enough, I remember the first time playing GTA4 on Xbox I somehow managed to put a helmet on while riding a bike, and assumed I would be able to put a seat belt on in a car to stop Nico flying through the windscreen in a high speed collision, unfortunately I have not found a way to do either of these on my PC version.
 
After that drive yesterday I have zero faith in my fellow road users.

Dude is like 400m away from a robot when it turns red. Dude *accelerates* hard till 100m from robot, notices this isn't going to work nails the brakes starts skidding. 25m from the robot starts accelerating again, narrowly missing traffic in the robot and cruises through the red light at 100+.

/cue epic bewilderment on my part.

I couldn't even get it that wrong if I were drunk, high and colour blind. I mean shit...he was almost in time for the *next* green phase thats how epicly misjudged that was.
 
Only been in one accident which was caused by mother nature, since it was hailing, raining with 10 - 20 cm film of water on the road with ice from the hail so my car aqua plained down the hill into a bakkie which I didn't damage at all but my car got damaged in the front.

I was only going under 40 km/h in 2nd, but the slope downhill was quite steep.

I have avoided many accidents where people jump red lights or yields/stop signs, since I always check the side roads before moving.
 
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i've never driven into anyone yet, but i have been driven into twice by Idiots,once on a rainy day and the second time a scooter went into me at an intersection. my car then sustained minimal damage on both occassions
 
78 percent admitted to speeding;
26 percent to tailgating;
23 percent to failure to yield;
25 percent to weaving in and out of traffic;
20 percent to running red lights;
19 percent to ignoring stop signs;
13 percent to crossing a double line;
71 percent to speeding through yellow lights;
27 percent to not using a seatbelt.
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There was this one BMW driver that did all these yesterday.
 
The only time I drive anything close to what can be considered 'reckless' is when people don't keep their speed up, like driving 30 in a 60 zone or driving 100 in the right hand lane on the N1.
 
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