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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

...in this essay I will explain how my 500 hours in Burnout: Paradise makes me a superior driver...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You say that, but I'm fully convinced a good rally simulator will help a looot to control a car in adverse conditions

But I could be totally wrong, I do do a lot of real life and sim driving

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In a sense, I agree that it makes sense to train people to be better technical drivers. The issue is that for avoiding accidents, your time is orders of magnitude better spent practicing planning and avoiding potential situations in the first place.

Being able to see where you need to pay extra attention, what cars to keep extra distance to, and being able to judge what a safe speed is saves far more lives than building the technical skills to get out of a situation once you're in it.

To be fair though: at least in Norway we have an obligatory course where we drive on sleet/ice or oil to practice controlling a car in winter conditions. However, the main focus of the course is on recognising how fast you can go in different conditions, and how far of a breaking stretch you need to plan for.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Someone's been playing grand theft auto

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly if you can play that game you must have super human reflexes. I used to play it on the xbox360 and loved it but Iโ€™m older now and recently got it on ps5 and Iโ€™m just constantly smashing into shit. I would be terrible in a real car!