Stop picking on women drivers? We're no worse than men are!?

Question

Yet of all another Q about women drivers! And yes i am a woman driver and to my knowledge (What i see happening around me when i drive) bad driving is not a gender thing! There are people who simply shouldn't be on the road, be they men/women. And after all these jokes about women drivers ... My pet hate is men with grey hair, usually wear a hat as well! They drive way below normal speed, indicate one way to turn another (That is when they ido indicate in a first place) and yes!!! Some women do that as well but!!! Why o Why pick on women drivers??? I meet more men bad drivers than women so there!!! Am i the only one wishing men would stop making fun of us ????

LOL Igwad!

Answer 1

Funny you should ask. I have never had an accident, speeding ticket. My husband and I always are in small debate about the better driver in the family.....until less than a week ago, he drove his brand new Crossfire into my Mustang. What were you saying????

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I think the whole 'women drivers' thing stems from the fact that in the early days of motoring it was mainly men who drove, so women were less experienced drivers with all the potential for error and poor driving that would result from that. I'm not making any sexist observation, but it may be that even in these more enlightened days men tend to do more driving, and maybe this higher level of experience still applies. That said, women tend to get cheaper insurance, so statistically I suppose they are safer drivers at least.

One thing's for sure - I have to agree with you on the hat thing!

Answer 4

I will accept that women drivers are no better than men, at cleaning the kitchen.

However, in terms of driving skills, women are just not any good.

(End Chauvanism)

Seriously now, I think that is has become a stigma, starting with people with a deep-seated need to not think themselves equal to women. (which of course they are - the top bit was my sense of humour)

What happens then is that they selectively remember what they see - a guy who drives poorly might be remembered 1 time in ten, and a woman driver 9 times of 10. Then the people involved 'notice' that lots of women are not good drivers. (just their memory playing tricks on them), and so they tell others, who start paying more attention to women drivers - and the cycle goes on.

That about covers it. May I have ten points?

Answer 5

In my experience, most women are better drivers than men. It's the glaring exceptions who give the sex a bad name - for example, the person I observed doing 70 in a people carrier with children in the back, with her mobile in the crook of her shoulder whilst putting on lipstick.

It's like a lot of things. Women always have to run to prove that they are as good as men - men are just men and, apparently, need to prove nothing except how macho and indifferent to the law they are.

Yes, I am a man (a grey haired one in a hat, at that) and I completely agree with you.

Edit: If one bases good driving on insurance claims, I'm afraid that gives a very skewed picture. Just the fact that more men than women total a vehicle says more to me than the number of claims in total.

I do have to say that every single insurance claim we have made was due to something that happened while my wife was in control of the car (or, on one occasion, distracted my attention momentarily - but we didn't claim for that).

Answer 6

Personally I do not care when men make fun of woman drivers.

I haul sound, stage and lighting for concerts, hence I drive a semi truck as I have for the same company for the past 20 years.

In my 20 years with this company, I am number 1 in seniority, meaning that no man could hang in there as long as I did.

I have received a one million mile safety award, meaning I have driven my truck 1 million miles with no accidents.

I received my 2 million mile award last month not only from my company, and not only from the promoters I haul for, but from the National Safety Council.

This year so far no one else has gotten one.

Does that make all women a good driver? No it does not. But it doesn't make all of us bad ones either.

Answer 7

Generally, women are worse drivers because they don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

Women don't have as good survival instincts as men and this translates to bad driving. They are also less technically oriented than men which ALSO translates to bad driving.

Generally the problem with men is that some of us can be pretty impatient.

There are *some* good women drivers out there, for certain.

Answer 8

both men and women have their advantages and disadvantages while driving. Men have a better technical insight and are better at judging speeds and distances. Women have a much broader focus than men.
on the whole one could say that men are better at handling maneuvring and keeping safe distances.
Women however are better at keeping their minds on the different focus point of the traffic around them.
So noone is a better driver not men nor women

Answer 9

i hate to say this, but women are the worst drivers, and i only found that out coz i have a new job at an insurance company... let me explain why.

women are more likely to drive into a lamppost, wheelybin etc and only slightly damage the car.

men are more likely to write a car off.

so while men might only need to make one claim every few years, women make more claims per year and are therefore the worst drivers.

and before all you women out there start having a go... i know it doesnt apply to all women, its just the general rule.

sorry. x

Answer 10

Why do we make fun of women drivers?
Hmmm. Google 'Female Driver Joke'
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,860,000 for female driver joke.

hahaha Google 'male Driver Joke'
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,610,000 for male driver joke.

Ah ha! There ARE more female driver jokes than male driver jokes!
But WHY?

Two examples:

Example 1 - I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing him to have to drive on the shoulder. This evidently pissed the driver off enough that he hung out his window and flipped the woman off. "Man, that guy is stupid" I thought to myself. I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic and here's why.

I drive 38 miles each way, every day, to work. That's 76 miles, of these, 16 each way is bumper-to-bumper. Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway. So, if you just look at the 7 lanes I am not in, that means I pass something like a new car every 40 feet per lane. That's 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be 982 cars every mile, or 31, 424 cars. Even though the rest of the 34 miles is not bumper-to-bumper. I figure I pass at least another 4000 cars. That brings the number to something like 36, 000 cars I pass every day. Statistically half of these are driven by females, that's 18, 000. In any given group of females, 1 in 28 are having the worst day of their period. That is 642.

According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding, that's 449. According to the National Institutes of Health, 22% of all females have seriously considered suicide or homicide, that's 98. And, 34% describe men as their biggest problem, that's 33. According to the National Rifle Association, 5% of all females carry weapons, and the number is increasing.

That means, that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, is having the worst day of her period, and is armed.

No matter what she does in traffic, I wouldn't DREAM of flipping her off.

Example 2 - Bubba & Earl

Two rednecks, Bubba and Earl, were driving down the road drinking a couple of bottles of Bud.
The passenger, Bubba, said "Lookey thar up ahead, Earl, it's a police roadblock!! We're gonna get busted fer drinkin' these here beers!!"
"Don't worry, Bubba," Earl said. "We'll just pull over and finish drinkin' these beers then peel off the label and stick it on our foreheads, and throw the bottles under the seat."
"What fer?", asked Bubba.
"Just let me do the talkin', OK?," said Earl.
Well, they finished their beers, threw the empties out of sight & put label on each of their foreheads.
When they reached the roadblock, the sheriff said, "You boys been drinkin'?"
"No, sir," said Earl while pointing at the labels. "We're on the patch."

OK! The answer is more clear! Which one could be TRUE? Which one is FUNNIER? hahahaha

;-D That is probably why there are more female driver jokes!

Answer 11

It is not just women drivers , there are people of both sexes and of all ages that really should not be driving . I drive for a living and let me tell you I have had to avoid my share of people who do not know how to drive . Everyone should be made to attend defensive driving school . Cars kill more people than guns each year so why don't we outlaw cars , and go back to horse and buggies or bicycles .