Back in the days of TOCA on the PC, the simulation was realistic enough to make me change how I drove my own front wheel drive car. Many laps of the race tracks using a wheel and pedals trying to trim down another tenth of a second from the lap time actually taught me how to correctly accelerate out of a corner. Something I was not doing properlly before.
There was a close enough simulartiy between the Honda Accord on the game and my own Civic. I saw a noticable change in how I then drove my car in the future.
Driving lessons are all very well. But my driving lesson was way back in the 80's in a rear wheel drive car. Too much of that was just getting used to the road. :)
(Though - I would 80% agree with the article that certain driving games make one look at the road as a game race track. But my age/maturity makes me not charge around like a nutter. I wait till I get home to do that.)
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Back in the days of TOCA on the PC, the simulation was realistic enough to make me change how I drove my own front wheel drive car. Many laps of the race tracks using a wheel and pedals trying to trim down another tenth of a second from the lap time actually taught me how to correctly accelerate out of a corner. Something I was not doing properlly before.
There was a close enough simulartiy between the Honda Accord on the game and my own Civic. I saw a noticable change in how I then drove my car in the future.
Driving lessons are all very well. But my driving lesson was way back in the 80's in a rear wheel drive car. Too much of that was just getting used to the road. :)
(Though - I would 80% agree with the article that certain driving games make one look at the road as a game race track. But my age/maturity makes me not charge around like a nutter. I wait till I get home to do that.)