Australian New South Wales acting Superintendent Dave Evans has blasted driving games as a reason for Australia’s infamous dangerous roads. Evans told the Australian Telegraph: “Videogames can have a negative impact on young drivers because it increases their complacency and their 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,” said Evans following the release of German research that showed that male drivers took more risks on the road following sessions playing driving videogames. But Australia’s roads have been infamously dangerous for decades. So does that mean Super Sprint was to blame?
Cops, driving and videogames also don’t mix in Orange County, Florida it appears. There, Kenyatta Hillman was pulled over by deputies for speeding. After a search of the car turned up an Xbox 360 and eight games, deputies confiscated the console and games to make sure “no one reported it stolen”.
When Hillman turned up at the sheriff’s office with a receipt for console and games, a search of the evidence room failed to turn it up. The supervising officer has since agreed to return the system and games to Hillman on Friday. After they’ve completed Gears Of War 2 on Insane.
