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Why Do Some People Say Women Are Worse Drivers 🤔?
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4.5K opinions shared on Other topic. This statistic doesn't seem to be weighted by how many hours/miles driven, and since men drive far more miles than women, that makes a big difference. It's incredibly easy to take a statistic out of context and use it to support a position that is provably false.
But let's get back to the original question: what does "worse driver" mean? That would need to be defined before we could give a good answer to this question.
If the definition was based on driving SKILL, then we could devise a driving course that tested various skills, and then run a bunch of men and women through this skills test and see who did better. My guess is that men will do significantly better.
If, however, the definition is "hours driven per accident", then I'd expect the numbers to be pretty even between men and women. Women get into fewer accidents in raw numbers, but women also drive far fewer hours/miles than men. Professional drivers (truck drivers, delivery drivers, heavy equipment drivers, as well as people whose job requires a lot of driving, such as service workers) are almost all men. If you use the "number of accidents per miles driven" stat, I'm guessing it would be pretty even.
When men get into accidents, it's usually because they were driving too aggressively - often, they are showing off in some way. In these situations, they're well beyond the skills needed for normal driving, and many don't have the skills or the vehicle to successfully avoid problems at that level. Because of this, accidents are often more serious and more spectacular (in a bad way).
When women get into accidents, it's usually because they are distracted (on their cell phones, putting on makeup, etc.) or because their driving skill level is pretty low. They rarely show off or intentionally try to drive beyond their skills as many men do - their accidents tend to be more routine.
Of course there are exceptions to every rule. Danica Patrick did better than a lot of men driving some of the highest performance cars there are. And as someone who commutes, you don't need to tell me that there are men who are hopeless drivers, or who are easily distracted by being on their phone - I deal with them on the road pretty regularly.
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There are lots of things to consider here.
1. The study done does not specify how many male and female driver were taken into the study. Generally there are more male drivers out there than female.
2. Women driver generally have lesser experience (total number of hours they have been before the steering).
3. Out of the group of drivers considered how many and what gender are professional drivers and how many are non professionals. Women generally are not employed in professional driving compared to men.
4. Men generally do better in motor abilities, probably an evolutionary advantage because they were involved in hunting and food gathering.
But does that mean women can't be good drivers? Absolutely No.
The difference between other creatures and human beings is that human life is unformed and boundless.
A human infant needs to be slapped in the back in order to make it breathe for the first time. Whereas other animals have that hardwired. A human life has no upper limit. You can be whatever you want to, if you put in the required effort. For countless centuries human beings have bent the natural laws, their own genetics and have done whatever they could imagine.
The only way to truly tell, is to look at both traffic tickets, as well as the number and severity of collisions, especially fatalities. Men receive more tickets per-capita, as well as get in more traffic collisions per-capita, and cause more traffic fatalities pre-capita. All the anecdotes about how women drive while applying makeup, not withstanding men are the majority traffic citations, traffic collisions, and cause the majority of fatal collisions. And for the record, I have never once applied makeup either while driving, or while sitting at a traffic light. Also, my phone is set to not even work while I’m driving, something that should be built into every phone, by default at the factory.
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I never understood where "women are bad drivers" stereotype came from. According to the statistics, women are much less likely to be involved in fatal car accidents compared to men. Women are also more likely than men to get their driver's license.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9647900/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/198017/total-number-of-us-licensed-drivers-in-2009-by-gender/
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Probably just depends on what metric we use. Women are safer drivers statistically. Even if we adapt for how much people drive women still win (men drive roughly 40% more but are also in about 3x more accidents according to a brief google). In that sense women are significantly better drivers.
In the sense of high performance we would instead look at something like F1. While there have historically been a few women there it is a heavily male dominated sport and the male vs female performance even when adapted to the number of participants is anything but even. In that sense men are significantly better drivers.
So well, women are safer drivers. Men are more high performing drivers. Obviously safety might be preferable to the general populace.- 13.3K opinions shared on Other topic.
I believe both genders can have moments of not being so good of a driver
you got guys who are hotheads now they are the ones who are bad at driving
then you got girls who still sneak and text while driving then they don't have
their concentration on the road and just some people in general aren't good
at driving one thing I believe that they should make elderly people take over
their driving test when they become a certain age one day me and my cousin
was driving and this elderly woman came out of High Rise, and she pulled
outright in front of us, if my cousin didn't have the break on there would been
an accident happening -
They aren't the worst drivers, if anything-going by statistics-they were proven to have better driving records than men. My problem- aside from one woman- is that they drive so much more carefully which to them it will seem fine, 9/10 guys are having interior monologues that go like
OMG she could have made that light with 5 minutes to spare. Great, what I thought was going to be a way to long drive is going to be worse than I imagine if she's going to stay at the speed limit
You would have plenty of room to pass this asshole we've been behind for 45 minutes
How can she possibly need to stop to take a leak, this is like the 14th time- or thereabouts.
I'll concede the better driver by narrow cop/parent standards.
It's the how much time fo we need to spend going here. I swear it was double the amount of time as I would need - 2.9K opinions shared on Other topic.
Re that truck - there is always an exception :- )
In my experience of 54 years of driving (shucks, it's been that frickin' long?) I have found that men are more predictable drivers and women are less predictable. (When driving, I really don't keep score of the sex of each driver since I'm too busy just trying not to hit either of them! but I digress )
So, I am more likely to expect a guy to make a high-speed pass and cut me off, and go weaving down the freeway than a woman. On the other hand, I also have to be wary of the woman being "kind" who gives a right of way (when it isn't hers to give) and does something like stop in the middle of the road and not at a corner. Women are no worse than men. Several women are race car drivers and very good ones. Shirley Muldowney comes to mind. A woman that can handle a top fuel dragster at speeds approaching 270 mph seems pretty capable. Sara Fisher, Janet Guthrie, and Danica Patrick to name a few. The difference is how women are trained. I taught my oldest daughter how to drive and stay alive. I put her through her paces and she's a better driver than most non-professionals I know. My youngest didn't want me to teach her, so she can't drive a stick, has wrecked two cars, and now takes public transportation wherever she goes. She moved to Pittsburg because of public transit. I train young adults or did, to drive to stay alive.
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That's what they say miss brains muffins, sometimes i do believe that it's true but when i see some young boys driving a car to their death, i start re-thinking again, i agree that road acciddents are cause by guys more then women because they drive like maniacs and they are a danger on themselves and on others...
I'm an excellent drive better then men and women 🚗 🏆
No one can drive with the presence of miss brains in the car cause she might get naughty and makes the driver lost and going crazy 🤪 Depends, my ex-wife was a horrible driver. She would drive slow on a main route, then fast through a neighborhood residential area. People were actually yelling at her cause they worried she could hit someone's kid. She also drove the car with no antifreeze for an hour, I have no idea how the engine wasn't totaled. One of the plastic parts failed and coolant leaked out. The car kept shutting off cause of heating, and I know the temperature gauge had to be high, she was just clueless and had no idea what to do other than try to start the car and keep driving. To make it worse, we even had free towing (AAA). My current girlfriend is a much better driver she just has a hard time at night and falls asleep behind the wheel, which is the scariest part of her driving. My mom drives slow as fuck and brakes while going uphill. Who brakes going uphill? Just take your foot off the gas.
The data I’ve seen (which doesn’t contradict what you posted exactly though the interpretation it does) is that women get involved in more incidents but they tend to be more minor. Women’s accidents compared to men tend more often to be due to poor skill or distraction. Minor fender venders or hitting things while parking.
men are more likely to be in accidents that involve them being reckless. That type of accident tends to be worse. Rolling your car or crashing while going 100 mph plus is almost exclusively done by young men.Your question made me remember one of my friends, he was a step to death 3 times in car accidents, the three of them the driver was woman, one of them was at 2 AM and my friend was passing the street and suddenly a car came from no where driving at high speed was driven by a woman and when she saw my friend instant trying to control or stop the car she put her hand on her eyes, my friend in the last second jumped from her way and she crashed into a lamppost, nobody was injured but it was too dangerous.
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I believe this sentiment comes from the 1970s when more women entered the workforce so more women were driving during rush hour. Men weren't used to seeing this. Men would complain a woman driver would stick her hand out the window, to indicate she was going to make a right or left, but wouldn't do so. She was sticking her hand out the window to dry her nails.
So they put women under a microscope and anything they did wrong became magnified -
They just are skill-wise. 99% of the time when you see someone in a car park taking forever to reverse park, constantly moving backwards and forwards rather than reversing straight in, it’s a woman.
Women are more risk averse though, so they are less likely to get into crashes. It’s easy not to get into a crash when you drive 10mph under the speed limit like a grandma. - 681 opinions shared on Other topic.
I've been in the car with lots of people & it is about equal. Before I had a car, a friend of the family (he is 98) offered to drive me home. He was doing great until he got into the neighborhood. He began driving on the sidewalk and hit the fire hydrant. Lol
1.7K opinions shared on Other topic. They're assholes and probably also sexist and probably also incels.
There's always gonna be a source and always one more source contradicting the previous source.
Off topic but sometimes I can't believe how racist males get girlfriends. I suppose class attracts class.Because on average with all else equal, women are worse drivers. If you're taking an honest look per statistics you don't just look for accidents caused by men and accidents caused by women.
You take a look at the nature of the accidents, age of the drivers, professional or non professional drivers, gender of the driver.
An accurate sample group is someone that is in a median age range, non professional, driving under normal conditions.
Like going to and from work or running errands. Not running from cops after committing a violent crime. Or a professional truck driver that is underslept.
Both those categories are male dominated and because of that nearly all the accident will be by males. Rather than putting average level headed, every day male and female drivers and compare that.- 1.3K opinions shared on Other topic.
Its from a time period, when women weren't allowed to drive at all. So once more and more women started to drive, they had no experience and caused most crashes, traffic jams and made lots of beginners mistakes.
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Ahhhhhhhhhh ur wrong, sorry, guys hold the majority population of jobs involving automobiles. Michanics, race car drivers, truck drivers. 60/40 guys are more interested in objects/machinery vs. People or interpersonal relationships. That's just how it is dawg. At least in this day and age.
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Nobodys a worse driver than I am! Haha just kidding (not really).
I suppose they say it because in their experience that's the way it is. Though, people have different experiences so it varies. Personally, I haven't noticed who is worse. I think I'm a great driver but my mechanic would say otherwise. I think females have more minor dings but guys just let bravado and the need for speed brake over and drive at speeds that cause bad crashes
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I think it's the same. Depends on person. Kinda off topic but i hate when some people say that motorcycle is dangerous and blah blah meanwhile car drivers are dangerous because they aren't paying attention because maybe they talk on the phone, putting radio and whatever meanwhile when we drive the motorcycle we just drive.
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Almost all professional drivers (truckers mainly) are male. And even then the average man drives more than the average woman.
Another thing is that men tend to drive more risky. Doesn't necessarily make them worse drivers, but the outliers who mess up will cause way more serious issues than the women who keep hitting a post or fence while parking.
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