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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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