#Driver Retention

[rigonwheels]

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[vamptastic]

aughhh ougbhhj i need to move somewherw with a train system

[lord-media]

Driver retention: 3 ways to restart your strategy

Driver retention: 3 ways to restart your strategy

News For many fleets, the biggest obstacle they face is not to Diesel costs rise or supply chains are disrupted, but drivers retain. In 2020, driver turnover rates for fleets earning more than $30 million in annual revenue were a staggering 92%, with smaller carriers reaching 72%. Drivers play a crucial role in the way we live and work; This is particularly evident this week as we celebrate…

[probablyasocialecologist]

John Barnett had one of those bosses who seemed to spend most of his waking hours scheming to inflict humiliation upon him. He mocked him in weekly meetings whenever he dared contribute a thought, assigned a fellow manager to spy on him and spread rumors that he did not play nicely with others, and disciplined him for things like “using email to communicate” and pushing for flaws he found on planes to be fixed. “John is very knowledgeable almost to a fault, as it gets in the way at times when issues arise,” the boss wrote in one of his withering performance reviews, downgrading Barnett’s rating from a 40 all the way to a 15 in an assessment that cast the 26-year quality manager, who was known as “Swampy” for his easy Louisiana drawl, as an anal-retentive prick whose pedantry was antagonizing his colleagues. The truth, by contrast, was self-evident to anyone who spent five minutes in his presence: John Barnett, who raced cars in his spare time and seemed “high on life” according to one former colleague, was a “great, fun boss that loved Boeing and was willing to share his knowledge with everyone,” as one of his former quality technicians would later recall. But Swampy was mired in an institution that was in a perpetual state of unlearning all the lessons it had absorbed over a 90-year ascent to the pinnacle of global manufacturing. Like most neoliberal institutions, Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.

[...]

By now you know what became of Swampy: He was found dead a few weeks ago with a gunshot wound to his right temple, “apparently” self-inflicted, on what was meant to be the third day of a three-day deposition in his whistleblower case against his former employer; his amended complaint, which his lawyer released last week, is the basis for much of this story. It is worth noting here that Swampy’s former co-workers universally refuse to believe that their old colleague killed himself. One former co-worker who was terrified of speaking publicly went out of their way to tell me that they weren’t suicidal. “If I show up dead anytime soon, even if it’s a car accident or something, I’m a safe driver, please be on the lookout for foul play.” 

[mensfactory]

BMW M1 

The M1’s history is complicated, and its impact on the Bavarian marque’s reputation was far greater than the modest production run of just 453 examples would suggest. Certainly, the M1 was a Supercar in the context of late-1970s racing technology, and that it looks like one is due to its body having been styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro, founder of Italdesign.

The M1 was developed under the aegis of BMW Motorsport head Jochen Neerpasch to compete in Group 5 racing, primarily against Porsche’s nearly invincible 911. Homologation requirements called for 400 road-going examples, and without the capacity to build the car in house, BMW partnered with Lamborghini to develop the chassis, assemble prototypes, and manufacture the production run.

Yet Lamborghini’s financial woes of the era eventually caused BMW to bring the project back in house, though Dallara designed the mid-engined, tube-frame chassis. The project soldiered on, during the course of which subsequent changes in Group 5 rules relegated the M1 to Group 4 competition. If the wedge-shaped profile of the BMW M1 recalls the 1970s-era Giugiaro aesthetic, perhaps best expressed by the Lotus Esprit, it’s because wedges, like leisure suits, were all the rage at the time. But unlike leisure suits, wedges still look cool today. One concession to tradition in the design of the M1 was the retention of BMW’s classic twin-kidney grilles in the front fascia. (Note to BMW’s designers today: bigger isn’t always better.)

Behind the driver and passenger was BMW’s 3.5-liter, twin-cam inline-six engine with mechanical fuel injection and a five-speed transmission. Making 273 hp in street tune, the mill gave the car the ability to reach about 165 mph. Inside the cockpit, occupants would not be found guilty if either felt a little short-changed of luxury, though the fabric seat inserts seem au courant today.

[57sfinest]

something i’ve been thinking about is the intersection of racism & fascism with conspiracy theories/pseudoscience and the supernatural in disco elysium. it’s a well-documented phenomenon irl and i think the game is very good at easing you into the “levels” of how these things are inherently related.

on the surface you have the racist lorry driver, who literally has “racist” in his epithet and is the most out-and-proud racist-fascist you could possibly meet, and measurehead, another open racist and fascist whose nickname is given to him by his belief in phrenology. here we see these people as pretty much cartoonishly racist and very vocal about *why* they believe these things: it all comes down to pseudoscience. these are people who have been convinced that racism is just a fact, justified by science that others are just too “soft” to recognize. we all know about measurehead and his phrenology and such but the RLD also espouses pseudoscience to justify his racism:

and, in addition to this “supporting” his racist beliefs, on top of this he believes in conspiracy theories like an immigrant *Invasion* and an anti-Occidental (anti-white) “cultural victory”, which sounds suspiciously like real-life “white eradication” conspiracy theories:

okay, this is some obviously deeply racist and fascist shit. but it’s not just this. measurehead goes beyond this and believes in other conspiracy theories unrelated to race supremacy, like his thing with semen retention, which is also a real-life conspiracy thing:

i’ll tie this all up at the end, so let’s move on to the next layer. gary is explicitly identified as a cryptofascist by his epithet. a cryptofascist, for those unfamiliar, is someone whose beliefs and ideals align with fascism but who doesn’t openly identify as such because they’re aware of the social unacceptability of it. if you play the fascist route, you’ll have to play as a cryptofascist in order to maintain positive relationships with NPCs and not take constant morale damage from saying fascist things. gary also says blatantly racist things, and here’s where it gets a little deeper than RLD and measurehead: the very basics of what he says are factually true-- that seol exports microtechnology, for example, which ties them to a lot of global governments-- but these actual facts have been spun by fear and *conspiracy theory* into a load of racist bullshit:

and you can actually see in that half light line at the bottom how the fear leverages belief in this stuff! you can argue against gary this whole time and still, an appeal to *fear* can start to slip in through the cracks. gary opens with facts and logic, devolves into fear and conspiracy spinning, and we get another layer of how racist rhetoric and belief spreads. then, to add another layer to the fear angle, you have plaisance. it’s not fear of immigrants with her, though. she’s afraid of this curse-- the supernatural-- that she thinks will be responsible for ending her business, and in her fear she turned to racist caricature and stereotypes:

it’s not the same as the direct “you’re seolite, fuck you” that RLD directs at kim or the “non-occidentals are inferior” he and measurehead parrot or “immigrants are trying to take over the world” that they and gary all buy into. it’s a far more insidious thing: this is something she takes as fact, so deeply that she doesn’t even *question* it. these nonwhite people are special mystical people with magic and that’s just how it is! while it’s not quite conspiracy theory, it’s supernatural, which functions the same as conspiracy when you talk about how racism is rooted in some fundamental disconnect from reality. and this brings us to our final subject, lena. lena comes in from the same angle, a belief in the supernatural (cryptozoology) that ultimately results in racism. (the juxtaposition of cryptozoology/cryptofascism with morell and gary was not an accident!) she seems like a regular sweet old lady who likes cryptids, until you’re randomly slapped across the face with this:

she believes that seolites are a different *species*, and that’s just a fact to her. you point out the racism and she just doubles down-- no, she’s not trying to be offensive, it can be a good thing actually! that’s just nature, just like the cryptids she loves! it’s just fact! and we see this echoed by plaisance and even gary, where they’ll say something deeply racist and follow it up with “but [x group] is very intelligent/crafty/etc as well!” as though saying this somehow cancels out the racism (when in actuality, these “good traits” are part of what they use to fearmonger about these “other” groups they’re so afraid of).

in general this group of characters serves really well to demonstrate how people who are out of touch with reality in other ways (conspiracy, magic, the supernatural, and some extreme forms of spiritualism) are frequently deeply racist as well, and some of them aren’t even aware or doing it intentionally. it really just comes with the territory, and some people choose to lean into it while others aren’t even aware of it, which is why the process of recognition and unlearning is so important when considering the latter population.

[bisexualfemalemess]

*HSMTMTS SEASON 4 SPOILERS*

Question; Is it already appropriate to stop putting a spoiler warning on my posts? lmao

Anyway, Let’s talk about 4x05 specifically, Ricky’s line “Last summer, I was terrified, when I realized i had real feelings for gina.”

Because maybe this will put the pw/rini fans down and help them accept that rina is and was supposed to be endgame no matter what happened with liv and josh. Also, I’ve literally never seen anyone talk about this and maybe i’m just exaggerating lmao.

I think Ricky could have just as easily said something along the lines of “when i realized i had feelings/ when i realized i developed real feelings for gina” but he didn’t. Because he knew he liked Gina from the moment she kissed his cheek in that orange bug after homecoming, we’ve seen them flirt and we’ve seen him shoot a shot several episodes after that and I don’t know about you but i don’t give a spin hug to my friends. He stopped pursuing Nini as soon as gina came into the picture and that’s a fact, they didn’t bring the rickyxnini couple storyline back until after Gina moved, he didn’t actively pursue nini until Gina told him to stop calling and even then he kept texting her and we see him distracted throughout the next episode, the almost kiss didn’t happen until after Gina had replied and told him they were leaving early, only once he knew gina was completely out of the picture, did he go back to nini. He said it himself, he reverted back to his old self because he didn’t have gina in his life anymore and when gina told him she wouldn’t quit on them if she wasn’t moving away he genuinely looked upset about it as well. In episode 1 of season 2 at Ashlyn’s new years even party, that boy did a Triple Take when gina went to get a root-beer, the feelings were still there, they were just buried because he didn’t think he would see Gina again when he made his confession to Nini so he held on to what he used to know and who he used to be, because we all know that ricky bowen is not good with change. Now, in episode three of the season, the iconic valentines episode, The way he looks at her, the way his voice softens while talking to her, his line “I think you’ll get yours too.” After gina told him that every girl likes a sweet gesture, THE NEXT SCENE BEING THE CHOCOLATES, the fact that ricky got messages from nini and gina only seconds apart but he only looked onto his face once gina’s message came on, all of these things hint towards ricky’s feelings, even in 2x04 when Nini came to surprise the group in the bomb shelter, Ricky and Gina looked like they just got caught cheating even though all they did was talk and laugh. Last point, Episode five and six, He was in awe of gina when she was dancing (gina porter effect) and only went to gina for advice on nini because she had helped him the previous two times when he hadn’t even actually asked for advice in 2x04 and 2x03, The boy probably thought she was trying to get over him. In the next episode even though she had already tried to break off contact with him, he still asked to partner up with her and smiled at her when she looked at him while saying she doesn’t know what her heart desires. Even during Ashlyn’s retention of home we see ricky look at gina when he comes back in. RICHARD BOWEN HAS ALWAYS HAD FEELINGS FOR GINA PORTER, THE SEASON 3 PLOT LINE WAS NOT RANDOM OR CAME OUT OF NOWHERE. Ricky just finally realized what he could’ve had if gina didn’t move away once he lost it. RINA WAS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN AND BE ENDGAME. THEY DIDNT COME OUT OF NOWHERE OR ONLY HAPPENED BECAUSE OLIVIA LEFT. Because, fact-check Season 2 was filmed before the drivers-license drama, they did not break them up because things between liv and josh got tense. Your ship was not supposed to be endgame.

(In tomorrows post i will rant about the people who say that rina copied rini and portwells scenes And that gina is the new nini because literally where?)

[drdemonprince]

im so type A and anal retentive that when i was zoonked out on general anesthesia i remained incredibly lucid-seeming and my only tell that I was Altered was my repeated attempts to micromanage my Lyft driver in getting us home (I cant drive)

[rigonwheels]

Trucking Industry Offers Career Advancement Opportunities - Driver Retention

Driver Retention in the Trucking Industry is a critical challenge faced by companies operating in this highly competitive sector. The ability to retain experienced drivers is not only essential for maintaining operational efficiency and profitability but also for sustaining a positive reputation within the industry. To address this challenge, trucking companies need to implement effective strategies. Offering competitive compensation packages, including salaries, bonuses, health insurance, and retirement plans, is a fundamental step. Additionally, transparent communication channels to address driver concerns, ongoing training and development programs, and a strong commitment to safety are crucial. Embracing modern technology solutions such as route optimization and electronic logging systems can streamline operations and reduce stress for drivers. Promoting work-life balance, recognizing exceptional performance, fostering a sense of community among drivers, providing career advancement opportunities, and establishing a feedback loop for continuous improvement are key elements in achieving driver retention in the competitive landscape of the trucking industry. With these strategies in place, companies can not only retain their experienced drivers but also attract new talent, ensuring long-term success.

[rideboomindia]

How RideBoom can dominate the market

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[butchmartyr]

sorry buddy the actual leftists aren’t gonna take you seriously if you ignore the reality of communists and socialists caring demonstrably about the environment and pointing to capital as the dominant driver of its destruction. like we don’t want the death machine to continue we want communism, we don’t want to continue extractive practices like green revolution farming we want to look to sustainable and resource retentative solutions. i am somewhat sorry but you can’t expect us to listen to you if you can’t go 5 minutes without getting on some “communism destroys the Beautiful and Pristine Untouched Traditional Wilderness” and then get surprised when you get called an eco fascist. and it doesn’t help your case that yall still treat the healthcare many disabled/chronically ill people as a joke!

[nogling]

Two days ago, I had a full laparoscopic hysterectomy, oophorectomy, and salpingectomy.

I have been trying to get this surgery for more than a decade.  I have had hormonal migraines for 3 decades, severe cystic acne for 3 decades, and PCOS with insulin resistance.  I have spent the last several years regularly in agony once a month - between the 4-5 days I lost to migraines, the debilitating sciatic nerve pain, and the bleeding that led to anemia, I routinely lost days of my life every month, but couldn’t get a doctor to sign off on getting a hysterectomy.  In the past year, I’ve struggled with rising blood pressure, fluid retention, and increasing migraine severity and frequency, along with joint pain and skin rashes.

I am literally 48 hours out from major abdominal surgery, and I feel so much better it’s ridiculous.

My head doesn’t hurt.  My abdominal muscles are a little sore, and my incision sites are tender, but I’ve taken some ibuprofen and I’m not in pain.  The acne I had prior to surgery is no longer inflamed, and is well on its way to clearing entirely.  The dry, scaly patches of skin on my face, arms, and chest are smooth and soft.  My blood pressure has been perfectly normal, without medication, for 48 hours.  My ankles and feet have no edema.  I slept on my right side last night and woke up without a numb arm - a thing I haven’t been able to do in years.  My shoulders don’t hurt.  My wrists don’t hurt.  My hips and knees haven’t popped since my surgery, and are pain free.  My resting pulse is back in a normal range.  This morning I got up and went with my partner to renew their driver’s license, and we grabbed breakfast, washed the car, and ran a couple of errands - and I’m not out of spoons.  I’m going to go do dishes, and sweep the floors, and prep dinner, because I have more spoons left to spend.  The brain fog that I thought was normal is gone - this is the clearest my head has been in a long, long time.

I am so so so glad I was able to get this surgery.  My only regret is that I couldn’t get it done sooner, because I could have felt this way ten years ago. 

[cinnamonnangel]

ASTRO 101 - ZODIAC SIGNS (PART I)

ARIES (21 March - 21 April)

PLANET: Mars

ELEMENT: Fire

QUALITIES: Cardinal

HOUSE: 1st House

POLARITY: Masculine, Yang (+)

BODY PARTS: Head, Face, Eyes, Blood, Brain, Muscular System

COLOR: Red

GEMSTONES: Carnelian, Obsidian, Jasper, Bloodstone

JOBS: Entrepreneur, Soldier, Rescue Worker, Fighter, Athlete, Personal Trainer, Army, Government, Politician, Fireman, Police, Security Guard, Surgeon

KEYWORDS: fiery, pioneering, competitive, attempt, leader, stubborn, beginning, child energy, adventurous, manager, fighter, angry, hasty, gutsy, individual, hotheaded, hyperactive, spender, impatient, noisy, selfish, brave, generous, whimsical, result- oriented, thoughtless, kindness, sportive, worrier, active, energetic, enthusiastic, brash, crude, foolhardy, ardent, pushy, quick, direct, explorer, daring, tough, dominant, outspoken, combative competitive, demanding, rude, incisive, forceful, assertive, aggressive, restless, urgency, enterprising, pugnacious

TAURUS (21 April - 21 May)

PLANET: Venus

ELEMENT: Earth

QUALITIES: Fixed

HOUSE: 2nd House

POLARITY: Feminine, Yin (-)

BODY PARTS: Neck, Throats, Vocal Cords, Thyroid, Metabolic System

COLOR: Peach/ Orange, Pink, Green

GEMSTONES: Rose Quartz, Agate, Coral, Rhodonite

JOBS: Designer, Landscaper, Chef, Fashion Designer, Cosmetician, Financier, Educator, Treasurer, Model, Influencer, Land Agent, Economist , Trader, Artist

KEYWORDS: earthy, stable, practical, reliable, manage money, lazy, artist, nice, self indulgent, sympathetic, sparing, palatal delight, money- minded, property, music-loving, financier, stubborn, avoid taking risk, slow, boss, protector, intolerance, guarantee, materiality, comfy, lickerish, vengeful impersuasible, tasteful, vindictive, durable, somatic, fruitful, calm, loyal, well- groomed, foodie, greedy, routine, grasping, boring, solid, stolid, inertia, loyalty, stubborn, musical, materialistic, trustworthy, practical, patience, careful, sensuality, hospitable, maintaining

GEMINI (21 May - 21 June)

PLANET: Mercury

ELEMENT: Air

QUALITIES: Mutable

HOUSE: 3rd House

POLARITY: Masculine, Yang (+)

BODY PARTS: Shoulders, Arms, Hands, Lungs, Nerves, The Nervous System

COLOR: Orange/Yellow

GEMSTONES: Aquamarine, Tiger’s Eye, Moonstone, Amber

JOBS: Teacher, Translator, Writer, Journalist, Reporter, Presenter, Speaker, Public Relations Assistant, Barman, Business Manager, Illusionist, Driver, Paparazzi, Blogger

KEYWORDS: dual, lively, versatile, changeable, two- faced, talkative, trickster, unstable, logical, liar, trade, wizardry, gossiper, communicator, curious, mocking, avoid routine working, anxious, overthink, researcher, humorist, crafty, writer, speaker, snippy, handcraft, driver, teacher- student, copier, flexible, journalist, superficial, skilled, questioner, busy, alert, cunning, curious, dexterity, slick, capricious, smart, duality, heartless, fickle, unreliable, nosy, nervous energy, witty, intelligent, expressive, verbal, symmetry, sociable, inquisitive, chatty, mental agility

CANCER (21 June - 21 July)

PLANET: Moon

ELEMENT: Water

QUALITIES: Cardinal

HOUSE: 4th House

POLARITY: Feminine, Yin (-)

BODY PARTS: Chest, Breaths, Stomach, Uterus, Diaphragm, Upper Alimentary System

COLOR: White, Silver

GEMSTONES: Moonstone, Ruby, Selenite, Aventurine

JOBS: Childcare, Human Resources, Teacher, Soldier, Gardener, Social Worker, Veterinarian, Kindergarten Teacher, Nurse, Midwife, First Aider, Builder, Cemetery Guard, Farmer

KEYWORDS: protective, traditional, mother, sensitive, rearer, chef, romantic, sensual, intuitional, mature, matronly, family, ancestry, capricious, addicted, resentful, home- loving, retentive memory, polite, self-sacrificing, motherland, messy, fertile, sympathetic, forgiver, panic, collector, baby- sitting, memories, victim, nostalgist, teemful, cookery, defensive, quiet, reticent, sarcastic, snappy, instinctive, home loving, fussy, moody, sullen, snappy, vulnerable, protective, collecting, clannish, sentimental, smothering, subjectivity, manipulative, caretaker, clinging

LEO (21 July - 21 August)

PLANET: Sun

ELEMENT: Fire

QUALITIES: Fixed

HOUSE: 5th House

POLARITY: Masculine, Yang (+)

BODY PARTS: Upper Back, Spine, Hearth, Cardiac System

COLOR: Yellow, Orange, Gold

GEMSTONES: Citrine, Tiger’s Eye, Pyrite, Quartz

JOBS: Famous, CEO, Performer, Government, Sale Person, Tour Guide, Interior Decorator, Organizer, Fashion Designer, Exhibitor, Entertainment, Curator

KEYWORDS: dramatic, flamboyant, warm, king, queen, organizer, lively, luxurist, loving, creativity, onstage, self confident, egotist, proud, resolute, generous, loyal, defender, leading role, gaming, actress, perform, bully, scorning, magnificent, arrogant, sovereign, treater, famous, narcist, bombastic, childish, playful, regal, lazy, energetic, joyful, vitality, dramatic, overbearing, like-able, king pin, benevolent, snobbish, trusting, cheerful, courageous, theatrical

VIRGO (21 August - 21 September)

PLANET: Mercury

ELEMENT: Earth

QUALITIES: Mutable

HOUSE: 6th House

POLARITY: Feminine, Yin (-)

BODY PARTS: Nervous System, Abdomen Intestines, Lower Liver, Alimentary Canal, Spleen

COLOR: Light Green, Browny, Navy

GEMSTONES: Green Jade, Howlite, Jasper, Carnelian

JOBS: Editor/ Writer, Technician, Translator, Teacher, Detective, Critic, Statistician, Worker, Artisan, Civil Servant, Controller, Inspector, Graphic Designer, Unionist, Medical Staff, Coastguard, Soldier, Waiter

KEYWORDS: conscientious, analytical, fruitful, hardworking, serving, realist, practical, detailer, obsessive, punctual, curios, questioner, hasty, health nut, critical, rule based, virgin, earnest, calm, saver, stingy, heaper, logical, insensitive, tidy, uncompanionable, worker, craftsman, artisan, harvester, hyperactive, diligent, fussy, purity, alchemy, skillful, modest, reserved, neat, careful, pedantic, standoffish, systematic, perfectionist, discrimination, analytical, humility, helpful, retiring

[katukavo]

Private Jet

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[vro0m]

Do you think the younger drivers have an advantage on the track because they play those driving video games so often? I was thinking about Gran Turismo and an article I've read about surgeons who play video games regularly having better precision in surgery than the ones who don't play.

So I wonder if the F1 drivers who play driving simulation games in their downtime are better off than the ones who don't. Idk all the ones who play, but Norris and MV come to mind

Hiii Anon! Very interesting question! I wasn't sure how serious I should get with the answer but in the end I followed my heart and went serious and extremely long because that's always what I do anyway.

Tl;Dr : No, probably not.

There's two ways video games could impact real life F1 skills, and that's through training of skills directly or indirectly related to F1 driving.

The first possibility is training skills so tightly similar to the ones used in real life F1 racing that it transfers to real life racing. Think of actual sim driving for example. It can be used to learn unfamiliar circuit layouts, where to brake, where to accelerate, etc. I don't know enough about the F1 racing games to know if they are accurate enough for it to transfer, but I guess if they are it could help learn the circuits. However, it also means the in-game physics need to be good enough for the car to react in the way it would IRL, otherwise it's pointless when it comes to where to brake, for example. We know that's what they're trying to do with professional driving sims and when the on-track data and the sim data don't correlate that's a big issue for the team. And we also know that the car performance vary a lot between teams so how accurate can the video game really be?

Another thing to take into account here is that driving an F1 car is extremely physical, and when you play a video game you don't get all the physical feedback and sensations you would driving the car, which makes it way easier. Your vision would be more stable without the vibrations and the bottoming and the bumps in the road etc. You can focus more easily without the noise, the radio comms, the pain, the exertion, the heat, etc. But also you're missing info like physical sensations, wind, probably to some extent watching around to see where the other cars are, etc. So racing sims can never be accurate enough.

However, there's also indirect skills. I've kind of mentioned that one or twice before when listing what I would test the drivers for if I was hired to study their cognitive and psychological profiles, but there are more general cognitive skills that they're bound to have unusual performances in compared to the general population, otherwise they wouldn't be able to do what they do. For example, their attentional skills must be different to most to be able to deal with the distractions I mentioned earlier such as radio comms, visual disturbances, vibrations, pain, etc. for a whole race. I would bet on their short term/working memory, which allows for the active retention of information (think mental calculus : you need to remember the numbers AND apply an operation to them), to be very good, because they're being told their times and other people times and need to conclude stuff from that, etc.

So a possibility is that playing certain games (and not necessarily only racing ones) serves as training for these transversal skills that aren't exclusively tied to racing an F1 car. We have data that suggests that it is the case, and that video games can be beneficial for so called soft skills. BUT. Really though?

See the thing is my thesis was on a subject parallel to this and so I've learned a thing or two about the effects of video games and one such thing is that even though we do have studies that show positive outcomes to playing video games, the skills learnt through video games unfortunately don't transfer to new contexts very well. Even when said video games are actually gamified training programs rather than commercial video games. It means for example (and this is a made up example to be clear) you might have data showing that people who play Call Of Duty a lot have above average visuo-spatial skills due to learning to shoot people precisely and quickly but that doesn't necessarily help them navigate an unfamiliar environment IRL better than average because although both tasks rely on visuo-spatial skills, the task they've trained for (shooting people in a video game) is extremely specific and the gains don't necessarily generalise to other similar but different tasks (finding your way in a new city).

So all in all, I don't think them playing video games makes much of a difference. Not in a direct training way, especially as people who have access to actual professional racing sims + regularly drive actual cars around actual circuits ; they would learn way more by doing the real thing, especially for years, than, say, by playing fun video games during their winter break. And not in an indirect way either, because they're bound to be such outliers in the relevant transversal skills anyway that I don't think playing video games would make much of a difference. It's not impossible that directly or indirectly the video games are somewhat beneficial for them, but imo the gains would be negligible.

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