Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas cover.
The Grand Theft Auto series has been in many controversies throughout the years. You can add one more too the ever-growing list: car surfing, which involves performing stunts while on top of a moving car.
A study from the Journal of Neurosurgery points the finger at Grand Theft Auto among other entertainment mediums for popularizing the illegal activity. It accuses the series for portraying car-surfing as a popular behavior in warm weather environments with the following reasoning:
“Grand Theft Auto allowed players to simulate car surfing on top of vehicles while committing crimes in a variety of fictional cities that mimicked the conditions of New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Miami.”
For that reason, the study proposed, sunny states like California, Florida and Texas have the highest fatality relating to car-surfing.
Furthermore, the article also linked the release of the Grand Theft Auto series with the increasing number of car surfing fatalities. Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2 were linked to the first major increase in fatalities from 1998-1999 while Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is partly responsible for the second increase from 2000 – 2002. Finally, the release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas caused another big spike along with the introduction of Youtube from 2004 -2005.
Just like previous accusations, you shouldn’t expect either the publisher or developer of Grand Theft Auto to be fazed with the latest controversy.
Here is a trailer for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas:
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Since when is there car surfing in any GTA. If they mean when your character jumps on top of the car, they must not realize that in most cases the car slides out from under the player when it starts moving.
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