Are women drivers better than men drivers?

[Eli]

Originally posted by: rh71
My fiancee claims the reason is that guys tend to drive them everywhere so they have less experience. In her case, that's actually true, but I see so many (not all) women own their own cars and go out shopping on their own... and they are extra "careful" when driving... I don't recall the last time I saw a man drive that way. Sad but true.

They wish that was the reason.

No, it's just because.. women, in general, on average, etc.. just don't have the same technical mindset that men do.

 

[Ranger X]

For the past several months, I've been in several close calls and I've observed drivers that swirve onto other lanes. I would say about 90% of the time, I would look into the driver's seat and find a woman behind the wheel. About 75% of the time, he or she is on the cell phone. :disgust:

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: Ranger X
For the past several months, I've been in several close calls and I've observed drivers that swirve onto other lanes. I would say about 90% of the time, I would look into the driver's seat and find a woman behind the wheel. About 75% of the time, he or she is on the cell phone. :disgust:

I was almost literally run off the freeway by a woman driver once. I was accelerating on the on-ramp to get on the freeway. I wanted to get out of the slow lane after I got on the freeway so I signaled, looked over to my lane on the left, saw no one there and entered it. Then a lady who doesn't even have her blinker on literally swerves right into my lane where I am, I see her out of the corner of my eye and immediately swerve back into the slow lane. Fortunately no one was next to me, I gave her a really loud honk. Just so you know, I wasn't going more than 65 M.P.H. through the whole ordeal.

 

[JYDog]

Men are sligthly safer... Women are better natural drivers though. They can get in and just drive. Men on the contrary, inherently practices defensive driving. But overall, men are just as susceptible to real type accidents as women drivers are. Women catch the "fender benders" more often...

 

[Aharami]

hahahahah

 

[halik]

I would say women are on averge safer drivers (especially according to the insurance stats), that is they dont engage in crazy driving (we've all done it.... i used to love drifting my awd turbo talon).
What exactly constitute a better driver though? Number of tickets? I personally only got one speeding ticket in my life, usually i can pick em up from far with my radar detector

 

[Turin39789]

Back in high school I had a friend who was hit by a female driver while he was crossing a street. She fled the scene. A guy in a pick-up truck came by and blocked the road, as my friend was still laying there with his broken leg. A minute later, another female driver comes upon the scene and hits the truck.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Ranger X
For the past several months, I've been in several close calls and I've observed drivers that swirve onto other lanes. I would say about 90% of the time, I would look into the driver's seat and find a woman behind the wheel. About 75% of the time, he or she is on the cell phone. :disgust:

I wish they would come out with those portable dead zone devices...What I wouldn't give to have a 500 foot buffer between me and a working cellphone

 

[Aftermath]

My wife isn't really a terrible driver when it comes to the actual mechanics of go, stop, forward, reverse, left, and right. She just sucks with paying attention. It took me maybe a week of practice to learn to adjust the A/C or tune the radio while moving down the road without having any trouble. She'll just flat out take her eyes off the road, turn her head, look down, fiddle with it for a second, then glance at the road.. It drives me absolutely crazy. Even if you don't see her looking away from the road, it's so easy to tell she isn't watching very closely. Sudden starts at green lights because she wasn't watching the light change or the car start moving ahead of us. (There have been many times she just sat at the green light until someone honked at her.) She'll start braking a little late when a car starts slowing down ahead of us so it's a much more sudden and with an initial jerk, followed by heavy breaking to slow the car down in time. Plus she speeds. Before we got married I just harassed her about it, making fun of her about it. But now.. I fear for her safety, especially since she's 12 weeks pregnant. I've nagged and griped and I don't know what else to do about it now besides totally go off on her about it, which I've tried to do, but that usually doesn't go over very well. (I'll leave it at that.)

Anyone have any advice about letting your spouse know they're a crappy driver without being a total ass about it?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Aftermath
My wife isn't really a terrible driver when it comes to the actual mechanics of go, stop, forward, reverse, left, and right. She just sucks with paying attention. It took me maybe a week of practice to learn to adjust the A/C or tune the radio while moving down the road without having any trouble. She'll just flat out take her eyes off the road, turn her head, look down, fiddle with it for a second, then glance at the road.. It drives me absolutely crazy. Even if you don't see her looking away from the road, it's so easy to tell she isn't watching very closely. Sudden starts at green lights because she wasn't watching the light change or the car start moving ahead of us. (There have been many times she just sat at the green light until someone honked at her.) She'll start braking a little late when a car starts slowing down ahead of us so it's a much more sudden and with an initial jerk, followed by heavy breaking to slow the car down in time. Plus she speeds. Before we got married I just harassed her about it, making fun of her about it. But now.. I fear for her safety, especially since she's 12 weeks pregnant. I've nagged and griped and I don't know what else to do about it now besides totally go off on her about it, which I've tried to do, but that usually doesn't go over very well. (I'll leave it at that.)

Anyone have any advice about letting your spouse know they're a crappy driver without being a total ass about it?

I'd joke around about how I'm a good driver. Really it's not like you're saying she has a fat ass. If she's a sh*ty driver just tell her.

 

[Bitek]

I can't stand riding in the car with my wife driving. She drives horribly slow (like the speed limit :roll and refuses to move over from the left lane when someone wants to go faster on the highway. Her logic is that "if they want to break the law then that's their decision, but they can't make me do it and get a ticket." she driving on the highway so she should be able to drive in whichever lane she wants.....grrrrr.
I can't even stand being in the car with her driving seeing all the other traffic wizzing by us and her refusing to not even go 5mph faster for fear of a ticket (when everyone else is going 20 over...)

She used to not be this way, but a few pullovers a few years ago turned her into grandma.
Not to mention she couldn't park in a garage for sh!t.



Worst is that we visit her grandparents in the UK often, but she is the only one on the insurance to drive. Now she's on the opposite side of the road on tiny twisty country roads and roundabouts... Holy hell..

 

[DougK62]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Aftermath
My wife isn't really a terrible driver when it comes to the actual mechanics of go, stop, forward, reverse, left, and right. She just sucks with paying attention. It took me maybe a week of practice to learn to adjust the A/C or tune the radio while moving down the road without having any trouble. She'll just flat out take her eyes off the road, turn her head, look down, fiddle with it for a second, then glance at the road.. It drives me absolutely crazy. Even if you don't see her looking away from the road, it's so easy to tell she isn't watching very closely. Sudden starts at green lights because she wasn't watching the light change or the car start moving ahead of us. (There have been many times she just sat at the green light until someone honked at her.) She'll start braking a little late when a car starts slowing down ahead of us so it's a much more sudden and with an initial jerk, followed by heavy breaking to slow the car down in time. Plus she speeds. Before we got married I just harassed her about it, making fun of her about it. But now.. I fear for her safety, especially since she's 12 weeks pregnant. I've nagged and griped and I don't know what else to do about it now besides totally go off on her about it, which I've tried to do, but that usually doesn't go over very well. (I'll leave it at that.)

Anyone have any advice about letting your spouse know they're a crappy driver without being a total ass about it?

I'd joke around about how I'm a good driver. Really it's not like you're saying she has a fat ass. If she's a sh*ty driver just tell her.

Maybe tell her she has a fat ass THEN say she's a crappy driver. Soften the blow a bit.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: DougK62
Maybe tell her she has a fat ass THEN say she's a crappy driver. Soften the blow a bit.

lmao

 

[Aftermath]

I'd joke around about how I'm a good driver. Really it's not like you're saying she has a fat ass. If she's a sh*ty driver just tell her.

I have told her though. She already has a record, and a pretty bad one at that. She's been in a near fatal collision, plus several fender benders from failure to yield the right of way (from lack of looking for oncoming traffic.) I got real retentive about her driving at all when we got married, and I kept telling her why. People here are much worse drivers than we were used to back home (I've been in many close calls, but my record is still spotless), and she's not the best of drivers, so I'm really worried about it, but she keeps turning it into a whole sob fest about how she's learned from her mistakes and I just won't let her live down the fact that she's been in some accidents. (Her best friend was in the car with her in the near fatal accident.) So it ends up with her getting pissed and crying, as well as being furious with me about dragging her through her past mistakes.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Aftermath
My wife isn't really a terrible driver when it comes to the actual mechanics of go, stop, forward, reverse, left, and right. She just sucks with paying attention. It took me maybe a week of practice to learn to adjust the A/C or tune the radio while moving down the road without having any trouble. She'll just flat out take her eyes off the road, turn her head, look down, fiddle with it for a second, then glance at the road.. It drives me absolutely crazy. Even if you don't see her looking away from the road, it's so easy to tell she isn't watching very closely. Sudden starts at green lights because she wasn't watching the light change or the car start moving ahead of us. (There have been many times she just sat at the green light until someone honked at her.) She'll start braking a little late when a car starts slowing down ahead of us so it's a much more sudden and with an initial jerk, followed by heavy breaking to slow the car down in time. Plus she speeds. Before we got married I just harassed her about it, making fun of her about it. But now.. I fear for her safety, especially since she's 12 weeks pregnant. I've nagged and griped and I don't know what else to do about it now besides totally go off on her about it, which I've tried to do, but that usually doesn't go over very well. (I'll leave it at that.)

Anyone have any advice about letting your spouse know they're a crappy driver without being a total ass about it?

Man, I think the same thing about my girlfriend. She hasn't got in any accidents, and it sounds like she isn't quite as bad as your girl...but I hate thinking about her driving every day.

When I drive, like 80-90% of my brain is focused on the road, 100% if I'm in a weird situation. I hardly ever hear what other people in the car are saying, I just can't bring myself to invest much brain power into listening to them. My girlfriend is somewhat annoyed because I don't really listen to her or respond when I'm driving...but thats the way I drive and she can deal with it.

I respond to small things like brake lights flashing on for a second, a change in speed of the car in front of me or I'll take time to observe a stop light pattern, speed changes forced by upcoming road conditions or make predictions about what other drivers might do. Since I'm almost always paying attention and keep my eyes on the road, I can react quickly and appropriately...its why I haven't ever gotten in an accident. And now that my youthful stupidity is out of the way I consider myself a good driver.

My girlfriend...its like she just reacts to the immediate situation and doesn't think ahead much at all. She stops suddenly when a car uses its engine to slow down or coats because there were no brake lights and doesn't look ahead to see potential hazards. It really bothers me when I ride with her, so much so that unless its just a quick trip to the store I always insist on driving even though I don't even like to drive.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Aftermath

I'd joke around about how I'm a good driver. Really it's not like you're saying she has a fat ass. If she's a sh*ty driver just tell her.

I have told her though. She already has a record, and a pretty bad one at that. She's been in a near fatal collision, plus several fender benders from failure to yield the right of way (from lack of looking for oncoming traffic.) I got real retentive about her driving at all when we got married, and I kept telling her why. People here are much worse drivers than we were used to back home (I've been in many close calls, but my record is still spotless), and she's not the best of drivers, so I'm really worried about it, but she keeps turning it into a whole sob fest about how she's learned from her mistakes and I just won't let her live down the fact that she's been in some accidents. (Her best friend was in the car with her in the near fatal accident.) So it ends up with her getting pissed and crying, as well as being furious with me about dragging her through her past mistakes.

Tell her the truth when she cries about it. You're only mad and upset about her driving because you're sincerely worried about her.

 

[WHipLAsh13]

I have been drivng for about 16 years now. When I first started driving, I would have to say women were probably better drivers. Today women are by far the worse drivers. I can honestly say that 75% of the close calls I have on the road is some woman cutting me off in a rush to get to their hair stylist.

 

[GasX]

most one-sided poll EVER!

 

[xEDIT409]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
BEST poll EVER!

 

[DainBramaged]

Well, it's hard to argue with the poll.

 

[BatmanNate]

I agree with Skoorb on the need for more stringent tests required to get on the road, and to remain there after a certain point. I would also find it favorable if some sort of defensive driving class beyond driver's ed were required for new drivers, so they could learn to properly handle a vehicle under abnormally stressful conditions and learn to recover from and or avoid various loss of control situations, as well as learn a little bit about proper upkeep for a road worthy vehicle. I swear they just hand out driver's licenses in this state.

 

[jjones]

lol at the poll, think this is a male dominated board?

 

[Ness]

I'd think that men get more speeding tickets, but women get in more wrecks...

Until last week, when 4 of my female friends got speeding tickets.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: tkotitan2
i was suprised to hear last summer from a friend than 16-25 yr old FEMALE drivers are the worst insurance bracket in NY at least. Funny, I always thought I was screwed cuz I was a guy. So I guess they are worse drivers.

That's because the 16-25 year old men have already lost their licenses and the women need to drive for them.

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Fausto
Whoops. Looks like women are actually the better drivers.

At least in the UK.

In NA at least per mile driven women get in more accidents once you get past the teenage bracket, but then teenagers shouldn't be driving anyway.

Sounds alright to me, since I'm not a teenager anymore. In fact, I propose banning old people from the roads as well. And women. And everyone who's not me. Maybe then I could make some decent time driving.

I'd ban all teenagers. All people over 60 who have not passed a bi-annual exam (a stringent one - all exams should be more stringent, in fact), and also require everybody currently licensed to submit to a new exam over if they want to keep their license.

Anybody who drives under the speed limit would lose their license. Tailgaters would automatically lose it. People who actually stop at a 4 way stop when others are not there would also lose theirs, and people who don't go right on a red would lose it.

calm down there Fidel