LFS really does help your driving?

[Malibu]

(2014-09-19 22:10)Leon Wrote:  I don't believe it. Yes, LFS can, quite well, simulate how a car behaves and reacts to driver input, but driving or drifting a real car is never going to be the same as LFS or any other game for that matter. The physical forces involved when you push a car beyond it's limits are immense. If you don't have bucket seats and proper harnesses, you're really struggling just to stay in your driving position, let alone controlling the car that's already tiptoeing on the edge of it's capabilities. Alot of people, including myself - have had the questionable pleasure of slamming their head into the side window from a car breaking and suddenly regaining traction. During a high speed chicane maneouvre - I don't know the proper drift terminology, but when the car breaks from a left to a right drift - the lateral momentum makes an inexperienced driver have a hard time figuring out the gear changes due to the g-forces pulling on the drivers arm and affecting the "feel" of the gears.

Also, it's a lot more frightening to throw a car sideways with the accelerator buried in the floor in real life, than it is in a game. In real life, it actually has consequences when you crash or flip.

Nobody claimed it to be the exact same thing. LFS definitely helps you to understand the basic principles, the rest is just born skills.