[Scarlett.]

A new report has drawn parallels between playing video games and speeding among young UK drivers, according to the Press Association.

Hollywood movies featuring high speed chases and TV shows such as Top Gear were also singled out in the study, which was carried out by Co-Operative Insurance.

The report suggested that video games, TV shows and Hollywood movies create a "cachet of excitement and glamour around speeding".

It claimed that over a third of drivers aged 17-18 and a quarter aged between 19 and 21 break the speed limit on a daily basis.

The findings were revealed at a Parliamentary reception attended by road safety minister Jim Fitzpatrick.

Digital Spy


And there was me thinking putting your foot down caused speeding

[Twilight]

And there was me thinking putting your foot down caused speeding [/quote] Yeah i thought that to

[andyman]

So the point of the report?

Maybe ban games, ban! Ban! Ban!
Just more anti-gaming BS by freaks.


Ban! Ban! Ban! Ban! Ban!

[JOSHUAH!]

Its daft.
Its like when they said GTA caused some American Teenager to massaccre his family. Er, about 99% of people who play GTA don't go and do that!

[Shaun]

Games do not = violence / speeding.

Idiots + games = violence / speeding.

Idiots = violence / speeding.

[Tom4784]

I've always said that if you killed because of a video game, there was soemthing wrong long before the game came along. It's the same with speeding, games can't influence anyone to do anything. Anyone who is influenced by stuff like this should have been taken care of by evolution....

It's just an easy target for media and politicians to target for better sales figures and votes. If films were just invented they'd go through the same process.

[James]

Well here is the full report and the bit linking films, TV and games to speeding appears to be just the opinion of a professor. Not actual research.

http://www.cfs.co.uk/corp/pdf/A_Ques...ding_FINAL.pdf

[andyman]

The need for speed! That has been in our nature long before cars.

[30stone]

I go over speed limit on a daily basis like on next to every road.
The Acceleration part is fun... without games and movies people would still speed because they know their car can do the speeds.


If they wanted speeding to stop cars would be built with a restrictor on the acceleration and on the top speed.

[Xander]

Originally posted by JOSHUAH!
Its daft.
Its like when they said GTA caused some American Teenager to massaccre his family. Er, about 99% of people who play GTA don't go and do that!

Well you would be surprised. I reckon violent video games have alot to do with teenage crime and voilence I would say.
Slightly going off topic but the 9/11 terrorists used flight simulator to practise flying the planes into the twin towers etc.. Like the point I'm trying to make is that some use it to plot crimes etc...
But I think a few people think its okay to mimic stuff they play in video games into real life situations, and I think theres a heavy influence from it.

[30stone]

A simulator is usually different to a game much more advanced and everything it big crimes wont be caused by using a game to fly something.

And people who mimic the violence usuall have some sort of problems in their life or mental problems.



Speedings just fun, it has always happened always will unless restictors are put in cars.

[Scarlett.]

Originally posted by Xander

Well you would be surprised. I reckon violent video games have alot to do with teenage crime and voilence I would say.
Slightly going off topic but the 9/11 terrorists used flight simulator to practise flying the planes into the twin towers etc.. Like the point I'm trying to make is that some use it to plot crimes etc...
But I think a few people think its okay to mimic stuff they play in video games into real life situations, and I think theres a heavy influence from it.

Crime and violence have been around millenia before video games

[Tom4784]

Originally posted by Xander

Well you would be surprised. I reckon violent video games have alot to do with teenage crime and voilence I would say.
Slightly going off topic but the 9/11 terrorists used flight simulator to practise flying the planes into the twin towers etc.. Like the point I'm trying to make is that some use it to plot crimes etc...
But I think a few people think its okay to mimic stuff they play in video games into real life situations, and I think theres a heavy influence from it.

If you're capable of murder then the problem doesn't lie with a video game, it's because your a psycho (not you personall ). If it's possible to be influenced by something then there would be violence en mass since games like GTA sold millions. Games are used as a scapegoat and an excuse for crime. We should stop with excuses and punish the people who commit these crimes.

How about films like Saw, or older films such as I spit on your grave or Clock Work Orange which was a lot more violent then any videogame I've ever played.