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11-09-2012, 12:37 PM | #26 | |
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Another thing, for people over 65, I'm fairly certain there are FAR more men drivers on the road then women. This might stem from men being stubborn and wanting to still drive themselves. So again, if they don't take this into account the results are pointless.
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11-09-2012, 12:39 PM | #27 | |
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Anyway...on the highways, she's jerky, distracted, angry, and attempts to drive 90 mph all the time. Tailgates, doesn't look ahead, heavy braker, etc. We sold her Escape and I got her a beater bugeye for her to road rage in. Now she wants a 135. |
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Just read another article on it, didn't see any sources for the claimed studies but it points to men driving significantly more than women.
http://recombu.com/cars/articles/new...than-men-again "While there's no doubting young women are less prone to crashing their cars than young men, and are perhaps less heavy with their right foot (there are exceptions, of course), surveys like these fail to take into account that men, on average, tend to spend longer behind the wheel (60 per cent versus 40 per cent, according to the University of Michigan) so probability inevitably plays its part. Also, a scientific look at 6.5 million car crashes between 1998 and 2007 found a higher than expected number of accidents happening between two female drivers than between two males. Looks like this argument still has a long way to go yet before it is settled, then." |
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All I have to say is my girl friend is half asian. Although she enjoys driving she still scares the h*ll outta me.
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11-09-2012, 01:23 PM | #31 |
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Better is way subjective. I think women drive slower and more cautiously but that does not make them better. Test them behind the wheel through a given course at various speeds and then we'll see.
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Blah blah blah. Author fails at statistics and semantics.
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11-09-2012, 09:01 PM | #33 | |
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As usual, the insecure men WILL defend their pride because that's all they have going for them. |
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11-09-2012, 09:06 PM | #34 |
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Lots of bruised egos in here. My wife is a better driver than I am when viewed from the perspective of other drivers on the road. She's less distracted, takes fewer risks, and is a cooler head. I've improved a ton in the past 10 years, as I'm a lot like Shik now: generally a very relaxed, defensive driver. I can't help but wind out the MINI every once in a while. My wife has no such urges. She's a better driver. I'm a higher skill driver.
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11-10-2012, 01:53 AM | #35 | |
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Also, lots of people trying to defend themselves in here with silly caveats. I'll tell you one thing. When I see people driving like dicks and speeding their asses off and doing dick moves, definitely mostly men (specifically brotatos, h0 h0 h0). Last edited by chazly413; 11-10-2012 at 01:59 AM. Reason: sleepy |
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11-10-2012, 02:33 AM | #36 | |
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Also, men brag about wrecks and speeding, women lie about it. Tell that to the old fat bitch that nearly clipped me to pass someone while I was in the left going faster than both of them. |
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11-10-2012, 02:39 AM | #37 | |
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Seems odd to make such large blanket statements when your data doesn't include huge populations, doesn't normalize the data, and makes conclusions that can't be concluded (ie, better vs safer). That's what I was defending. |
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I've only ever felt fearful in the passenger seat with younger female drivers. For me, it's the excessive tailgating more than anything. |
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So at least in that regard, she's not exactly a normal female driver. Not too many female drivers I know are trying to do 90 mph whenever they're on the highway. But as far as being distracted, tailgatin, jerky...yes, she's all-female. |
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erroneous survey is erroneous.
We all know women drive less than men, so of course they will be in fewer accidents. after all, they can't be driving if they're in the kitchen cooking. |
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I find stupid threads like this funny when I can look up the accidents per mile statistics and find the women get in more accidents vs their male counterparts per miles driven and as they get older it only gets worse.
Women get in 5.7 accidents for every 1 million miles while men get in 5.1 accidents for every 1 million miles driven. Some of these articles go into details like fatality rates and typical types of accidents. Men obviously tend to get killed in more accidents while practicing riskier driving habbits. Women get in accidents from being purely bad at driving/focusing on driving, driving under stress behind the wheel along with issues navigating intersections and judging distances/depth perseption. Not to mention the growing demographic of distracted driving accidents which women lead the charge on. Just type women drivers on youtube. Tell me how many hits do you see and how many of them are low speed idiotic accidents in parking lots and intersections or some girl too busy paying attention to everything else except the road. Now how many of you can pretty much say you see this sort of thing on a daily basis (no the accidents but the habbits) and it normally being a female driver? What most articles fail to mention is men drive 65-75% more miles than women per year. So basing a study on yearly numbers gives a false conclusion that men are worse drivers. The major difference is men view driving as something to be good at and perfect while women view it as an inconvenience/chore. Here are two examples. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-discover.html http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/199...runc_sys.shtml |
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More, old but comprehensive data: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...cwpSz0A_UhZVFw
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Age 60.. when testosterone levels drop for the average man.. you know.. the hormone that makes you feel young and invincible despite your brain's oppinion to the contrary.
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There are ambiguous constraints in these surveys, and events that are not being considered. You may think that half of us are ignorant concerneing women getting out of tickets but it sure as hell isn't 1 in 10 times that a woman is let off. I personally know police officers that let women off. I have been in cars with women who have been let off and they even brag about it. How many men brag about getting out of speeding tickets?? Not very many...know why...because it doesn't happen as often. I have never been let off of a speeding ticket in my life. Why are there men in here defending their driving habbits?...because we are men. You make it sound like its a bad thing for us to take offense...the statement "that means nothing" doesn't mean that the idea that men aren't good drivers means nothing, but rather the data that is supplied means nothing because it is unclearly defined. Society is trying to make it as though it is wrong for men to get fired up about things...and deem it as their insecurity, or some other b.s. Let a man be a man...because thats what we are. |
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