Via Tiltfactor:
Washington, October 12 (ANI): San Francisco-based firm Posit Science has developed a set of five video games, together called InSight, to improve the mental acuity of older drivers.Insurance provider Allstate sent the games to 100,000 drivers aged 50 to 75 in Pennsylvania last week, hoping that the pilot program will turn older drivers into safer drivers.
“We expect to see that the group using the software will have a lower frequency of crashes verses the group that didn”t use the software,” Discovery News quoted Tom Warden of Allstate as saying.
Previously, Japanese game maker Nintendo had come up with games designed to reverse certain effects of aging. But since they were never scientifically proven to work, Nintendo stopped making brain-training games.
Allstate and Posit claim that they have science on their side.
They insist that 10 hours of game play turns the clock back 10 years in terms of memory, useful field of view, processing visual information, and general cognitive functions.
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Steve,
Our meeting yesterday prompted me to come and take a look at what you’re doing here. What ARE you doing here? Reading all this stuff is a good way to learn!