I used to have nightmares about driving before I started learning, where I was a passenger and the driver died in the seat, or it was vitally important that somebody get to hospital and the only way they could get there was if I got in the car and drove. I am a better novice driver in real life than I am in my dreams.
The hazard perception video is in slightly slower motion, slightly blurry, with no sound except headphone hissing. You bet that feels like driving drunk.
One of the Grand Theft Auto games has a mission in which you have to drive somebody to a hospital while drunk. They simulate drunkenness by blurring the picture a bit and also having a small delay between you pressing the controller and the car responding.
I haven't actually played that, though, only seen somebody else play it. (Hmm, which makes me think: an obvious form of virtual drink-driving which I don't think I've done is playing a driving-related computer game while drunk. I wonder if that would be scary as well. Perhaps it would depend on how realistic the game was.)
I think that would still not quite be like driving drunk though, because you're still sober and can learn to compensate for the delay and the blurring, whereas if you are drunk you may be too drunk to implement that, and probably think you're not acting any differently to sober too.
That makes a change from the rest of Grand Theft Auto, in which the aim seems to be to kill and maim as many people as possible, not save people's lives!
It's not entirely about killing and maiming. In GTA: San Andreas, there are missions involving driving a fire engine and putting out fires, and (I think) driving an ambulance as well. Although I'm pretty rubbish at controlling the vehicles so end up running people over anyway. :/
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The hazard perception video is in slightly slower motion, slightly blurry, with no sound except headphone hissing. You bet that feels like driving drunk.
I haven't actually played that, though, only seen somebody else play it. (Hmm, which makes me think: an obvious form of virtual drink-driving which I don't think I've done is playing a driving-related computer game while drunk. I wonder if that would be scary as well. Perhaps it would depend on how realistic the game was.)
That makes a change from the rest of Grand Theft Auto, in which the aim seems to be to kill and maim as many people as possible, not save people's lives!
There just aren't very many such people :-)