Germans Who Crash Cars Dig Car Crash Video Games

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Science, Transportation, Video Games

New research has indicated that those who play crashing car-racing video games may be more aggressive and take more risks when they drive in the real world. The study was made after German officials utilized a trial run to see if drivers licenses should be reinstated to those who lost them due to road rage.

“When they take your license in Germany, you must do a specific test to get it back. We took a special part of that test to measure risk-taking behavior,” said Peter Fischer, assistant professor of psychology at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University.

Of the 83 men in the initial trial, which was composed of winning by violating traffic rules such as speeding and crashing into other cars, all took more risks to total the cyber vehicle or run into objects in their paths. The findings were presented at the recent annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago. While this may hold some validity in Germany, we find that it bears the same logic that children who play violent video games will go postal and create the next Columbine disaster.

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