Does playing GT5 in any ways affects real life driving(not racing)?

[pjs123456789]

From my experience playing gt5 helps alot with real life driving. It helps with braking point, I feel alot more comfortable driving in real life, driving feels alot more predictable now. 99% of the time I use in car view and I can gauge up other vehicles better.

 

[pjs123456789]

Keep this in mind when you drive in real life you use you visual(what you can see) to make your discussion on the road and the same thing you use in the game. So the game can be used to practice on your coordination. That basically what I use it for and it works.

 

[sheepborg]

For what it is worth you could go either way.

If you are talking to a ds3 user, the answer is no. period. none of it transfers

But then talk to a younger, avid wheel user and maybe some might carry over a little bit. As one i will say that knowing where i want my hands to be has benefited, and then just getting more and more used to the H shifter have both had some help (less so with the shifter, but miss-shifting is alot more forgiving).
For me, no technique has carried over, as the feel of driving is much different IRL. My Matrix XR feels nothing like the vibe gt, which is the mechanical equivalent to it. So none of the feel, none of the technique for lines, none of the brake pressure, none of that carries over.

So the affects ought to be minimal.
I like to have fun driving, and i see fun in some local twisties, but i dont go into the apex at 2 in the morning or anything stupid like that.

So it comes down to.. well.. no. The brunt of the game has had no impact on me
Despite minor awareness things.

 

[KookiBirb]

Personally, I feel that GT5 hasn't affected my driving in real life at all. Well maybe, I sometime try to find where the apex is in some corners when there are no other cars on the road. hehe

But maybe once I start going into the track (someday) I assume that GT5 will help me for that.

 

[tosmo]

How do you assume Im driving a beater? you dont know me..why judge if you dont know.

Also I understand from your perspective but I dont go flying when I know theres cars out on the road as I said I go out @ 2 am..I live in a rural area so theres never cars out. & I stated on my earlier post I consider the safety of other drivers, if im going to hurt someone ill be hurting myself.

17 and driving a M3 Coupe, huh ? and bragging about it ? good for you ...

You come here and expose your foolishness to the world, expecting kudos and a pat on the back... Well tough luck, kiddo, a lot of folks in here are older and wiser than you ...

Just keep in mind no one expects a van with bad lights, a pedestrian or a drunk guy swerving in front of you at 2AM, but it still happens. Next time you try hitting the apex on the other side, there might be danger waiting for you...

 

[eran0004]

Well, I haven't got a driver's licence yet, but I do have a tendency to walk in racing line (true!)

Also, last week I was riding my bike and it was a lot of snow on the road and I thought that "wow, this feels just like Chamonix". It felt like I had better control thanks to GT5, but it's hard to tell

 

[chrisheadshot]

I think it does but for the wrong reasons, i tend to jump on the brakes late on GT5 which sort of mirrors my real life driving or at least did when i started driving (i've practiced that habit out now )

 

[Crispy]

Truth is, no.

Something like iRacing might, but that's not going to be a large learn. In GT5, the most you learn is braking, throttle control, steering input, slow in, fast out. Things like those. It helps to play these games to freshen the basics of using a racing line.