The idea behind the game is pretty straight forward: you must beat your satellite navigational system’s estimated time of arrival. I’m quite sure this has crossed some of our minds a few times but apparently some seven million British drivers are actually partaking in the potentially lethal new craze.

The game could work quite well in South Africa, because there are numerous roads that simply aren’t covered by satellite navigational systems.

Because the system’s arrival-time predictions are based on users actually obeying the speed limit, one would be breaking the law if you theoretically beat the clock.

Check out these statistics from a recent research report:

7.2 million motorists – a fifth of all drivers – have admitted to sat-nav racing.

3.6 million motorists admitted to breaking the speed limit when racing against their GPS to in the last 12 months.

144 000 sat-nav racers admit to having being involved in a collision with another vehicle or hitting a parked car.

216 000 have hit the curb while driving erratically and dangerously.

161 000 drivers have flashed their lights or gesticulated at other drivers to try to get them to speed up so they could race to their destination.

The report also stated that a worryingly high 1.2 million drivers admitted pushing through an orange robot so that they could improve their times.

While the idea of sat-nav racing may seem appealing, please friends, this is something we really shouldn’t be doing.

[Source: DailyMail]