Car Games Decrease Accidents

A recent study shows that a car racing game could affect how you drive on the road. They showed that it increased the number of accidents that men got into, and decreased the number of accidents that women got into.

Munich’s Ludwig-Maximillians University studied the habits of men and women playing a car racing game, and found that more of the men would have a higher risk of going out and getting into a car accident than women would. They found that the game actually made women safer, more cautious, on the road after playing the game.

They found that since women overall, make less car insurance claims than men, because men are not considered as safe of drivers as women are, the study is not that surprising. However, they did find that it made them even safer than they normally were.

The men on the other hand, especially young men, who already have a higher car insurance risk rating, were found to drive less cautiously after playing the game than they did before. This report did not show any major change in what car insurance companies already suspected about their rating systems.
 

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