Spectator killed at Nurburgring race

[shenmue]

Story here

From the article:

A spectator has died after a crash involving a British driver at the VLN Endurance Championship in Germany.

[edgineered]

1. Does the linked article mean to imply

that the driver learned how to drive by playing video games and was awarded a racing career for beating 90,000 other playstation drivers?

If so, this is exactly what is wrong with the drone programs, first person shooter games, etc. Crashing a computer generated car into spectators, killing avatars,,,

[jmowreader]

2. I looked up this program

You start out by playing this video game...then they pick the 24 best players and send them to New York, where they are scrunched down to twelve...the twelve are then sent to England and put in a racing school where you are trained using real race cars. This guy was the best at the racing school.

[edgineered]

3. Thanks for the research -

there is no doubt that using technology to define and refine a skill set has its place. My concerns are with the loss of life becomes a consequence of gameplay; it seems to me that one would become accustomed to taking unnecessary risks - so what the computer generated car may have killed thousands of spectators during the years of practice. In real life risking a single life is excessive. The mindset of the driver/player must be different than that of a driver who has physically experienced a crash.