Are women drivers better than men, or just lucky? Men?

Question

think they are better, why?

Answer 1

Recent research shows men are more confident drivers than women over confidence causes them to become careless and cause accidents

Answer 2

Here's what I've noticed: Men are better drivers, but women are more cautious drivers. Men cause car accidents because they are driving normally and they crash into someone that is driving improperly, while women cause car accidents because they are being overly cautious and are doing something that causes someone else to crash into them. (Keep in mind, however, that these are just generalizations and that there are idiots that can’t drive in both genders. A few months ago, for example, a woman that had no insurance and couldn't drive- or speak English for that matter- ran a red light and slammed into the side of my dad's car when we coming back from a store. I‘m sure that there are also women on here that have crashed into men that were driving like dumbasses.)

Answer 3

It's skill that makes for a good driver, not luck. Skill requires study, practise and dedication. Women are as capable of that as men. How many of you male drivers out there have held a gold pass from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Advanced Driving Association for more than 21 years? You have to take a driving test (assessed by a Police Class 1 Driving Examiner) EVERY 3 YEARS, and it's a gruelling 90 minute test, be assured. Not for the feint-hearted!

Anyway, since you're a taxi driver, let me amuse you with this anecdote. Many years ago, when I delivered cars all over the country for Bristol Street Motors, I had to take a brand new Scimitar GTE to an address in north London. I hit Marble Arch at 5 pm and was unable to read my London A-Z whilst negotiating the traffic so decided to pull up behind a taxi rank and get professional help. I arranged to follow this taxi to the address in north London. Well, I lost count of the number of near misses en route - I was hard-pressed to keep up with the taxi in front. It was a nerve-wracking experience. Still, we made it, and the Scimitar GTE was intact. I gladly paid the taxi driver and gave him a generous tip - check out the free consultations given by RoSPA for advanced driving! Happy motoring, everyone!

Answer 4

They have less accidents. Men are too hot headed I think. Women are not to good at spacial awareness, if men didn't go so crazy in the car, driving so fast, I think men would be better. But the fact is, they do...so women are better.

Answer 5

Men are better drivers and I'll stand by that until someone shows me the statistics on accidents per sex per 1000 hrs of driving.

Plus the reason women get cheaper insurance is because they spend less time per day driving on average than men.

Answer 6

I tend to agree with you, they are better, take my ex wife for example, never had an accident. Mind you, she's seen lots of 'em though.

I think they are better for many reasons. Firstly they drive slower because it is hard to drive fast with 50% of your attention going to your friend on the phone and another 30% to watching the mirrors, just like they tell us to.

Actually most ladies like late model cars too because they are fitted with more mirrors and if you angle them all just right you can see yourself from almost every angle in all of 'em.

I am sure they get less penalty points too but maybe thats because they give more phone numbers to the boys in blue.

Anyway, I'm sure we love 'em all when we see them, especially the smaller models who just passed their test and ride with a white knuckle grip on the wheel, sitting bolt upright with their pretty heads tilted back, looking down their nose over the steering wheel and bonet. I don't for one moment begrudge them the outer lane as I follow them at a heart stopping 25mph, watching their indicators and trying to guess which way they actually plan to turn if they ever get round to it.

Bless em all with their back ends sticking out of every parking place due to the fact that the reversing gene was apparently ommitted from the female of the species.

I don't know where would we be without 'em but I suspect that we may get there a bit quicker. What do you think?

Answer 7

Women are different drivers to men statistically...as in the number of accidents they have...but they are just as good or bad individually.

In my experience, women are rarely as dangerous as the boy racers...on the other hand, I find women drivers much less courteous than men. It's all swings and roundabouts.

Answer 8

Men have better spatial awareness genetically as they were the hunters, but their testosterone levels cause more aggressive driving behaviour. Statistically women have more claims, but for lower speed accidents with much less damage, so overall they are deemed a lesser insurance risk. Men have better car control but get cocky so cost insurers more when it all goes pear-shaped. Does that help?

Answer 9

good question. I am a woman and I think I'm a pretty good driver but there are women who give some of us women a bad name when it comes to driving !!! Some men are pretty good drivers, but some of them are horrible. I would have to say it's 50/50 in this case...unless there has been a world wide study conducted to prove me otherwise!

Answer 10

“Women drivers are rubbish”, he said to the audience. His political incorrectness had immediately captured my imagination. “At the head of every traffic queue is a woman driver”, he went on. I waited with some glee for the women in the audience to start an attack on him. “When I get to the head of the queue and I find it is a man, I think to myself- now, there is someone taught by his mother! Or when I am overtaken in the queue by a woman driving fast, I reflect, she has been taught by her dad. Women are rubbish drivers!”

He had made his point well. He was speaking about Juvenile Delinquents' inability to change their ways – they were locked in by their belief system about themselves – “I am bad and I cannot change”. They take each piece of information, even when it contradicts their viewpoint, and interpret it in the context of their current belief system – so when a fast woman driver comes along they simply analyse it as “her father taught her”.

Now, what does that tell us about our answers here - and your question?