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Week 10 [08.01.2018-14.01.2018] Does a woman drive a car safely?

It has always been heard that women aren’t good drivers. Is it true ? I browse the articles and after drawing conclusions, generally there are much fewer car accidents than in previous years. This is very good information without looking at who drives the car. At the beginning I would like to say that men in the car are very fast, their decision is quick and more decesive. When a woman wants to make a decision to overtake an another car it takes much longer. The woman drives much more carefully. I found the most up-to-date article that summed up the year 2016 in terms of sex that caused the accident. Men responsible for 73% of accident  and women more less  27%. It should be taken into account that men are more frequent visitors of the roads and more seniors with a driving license aren’t able to drive a car safely, because the sight is getting worse and the reflex is much worse than in the young.
                All statistics indicate that a woman is a good driver, not always the same as a man. I think it would be safer on the road if everyone would think about others on their way. My mother is a very good driver, I think that she drives very safely and her thought that she carries children in the car, makes her  more responsible for them. Often when I drive a car I see that women do makeup and don’t  focus  on the road, I don’t really  think that this is a safe option. Although sometimes we can talk on the phone. My girlfriend is very careful on the road and I think that she rides very well although I often see that she does not know how to behave and it takes her more time than me. Parking in the performance of women I know and I see it in very funny way. Of course, I always prefer to drive a car rather than how a woman would do it.
                Every driver who can adapt to the conditions and surroundings and doesn’t pose a threat is a good driver. 




Comments

Unknown said…
As you said, the statistics show that more accidents are caused by men, but also, there is a lot more men on the roads than women. I would not dare to say, that women or men are better drivers. The most important part of driving is to not be mentally retarded. I can give some examples:

1. Not accelerating while joining a road to match the speed of other vehicles.
2. Not keeping the right lane when not overtaking on a multi-lane road.
3. Not using mirrors.
4. Not taking into account that other drivers also are real people.
5. Not knowing about the zipper method for merging traffic.
6. Not using indicators.

This could go on and on. People who generally don't think behind the wheel should not have a drivers license (acquiring which in Poland has nothing to do with the fact if you're actually able to drive safely, it just means you applied to all the quirky rules there are and had a bit of luck).

It is just about thinking about other people. The fact that you're casually driving on the left lane of a freeway at 140kph doesn't mean you have the right to. For your own safety, assume that someone else is going over 200 and will kill you if you keep doing this. Is it still such a problem to move over to the right lane, which by law you should be on while not overtaking? The same goes for joining a highway while driving at 60kph. The speed difference in a crash will be about 80kph. Would you like to drive into a wall at a speed of 80kph? I don't think so.

Another thing that should be considered is routine checks of older drivers. Regular, biannual tests after the age of 50 to determine if the driver is still capable of participating in traffic. This would heavily reduce the amount of critical accidents caused by half blind and slow thinking elderly people who have no idea that they actually are the dangerous ones on the road.

Every single point has nothing to do with gender, so I kind of refuse to answer the question asked in the title, not only because of it being badly constructed, but also that it is impossible to answer.
Unknown said…
Maybe the statistics tell the truth but most women ride very uncertainly. And men cause more accidents by speed. These are my observations :)
Unknown said…
I think that we can't look at stats. Women think differently than men. Maybe it is the same with driving. My girlfirend is good driver too and she isn't afraid of driving everywhere. I must fight with it. I see that woman very quickly get used to being a passenger. This is very very big mistake when you allow this situation. I have a lot of friends who have grilfriend with driving licence but they don't drive. When I ask my friend why, he told me "well, beacuse she's afraid" WHAAAT? I think that my situation could be the same but I didn't do this. Trust me it was a war. I remmeber when my girllfriend didn't know how to drive into the garage. Oh my God she always said to me that she couldn't but she never tried. Finally I opened the garage and went home and today she can drive everywhere. She is even not affraid to drive abroad and long distance for many hours.
I never understand why women change right lane to left when whole road is empty.
Vladlen Kyselov said…
In this regard, my opinion is that women are bad drivers, because majority of them can not take a quick correct decision in an emergency situation, which is an important factor in driving. The style of riding of women differs from men`s, it is safer, slower and more accurate while men driving and fast, nevertheless in most cases they make the right decision in an emergency situation and prevent possible traffic accidents.
Unknown said…
Basically, I agree with you that women need more time to make a proper decision on the road. However, they seem to me to be more careful and less agressive. We may try to compare men's behaviour on the road to living in the jungle. Every driver wants to show and he is strong and his car is faster and more expensive. The only one way to stop such reckless drivers is to push up the amount of tickets.
Unknown said…
I'm a woman and i love cars and fast driving. And i know that i'm good driver. My boyfriend likes when i'm a driver instead of him. He see that it makes me happy. What is more i think that my ride is more dynamic than his. But i know that i see more than more drivers. But i think that it don't depend of sex. When You like something you will do everything to be the best in it. I have somethng like this with driving a car.
During my driving test I had to turn left on a big crossroad without any traffic lights. It was me and three TIR trucks. I was so terrified and felt so small that I forgot all about who has the right of way and waited until all those trucks would go and than I made my move. My instructor was a little disappointed but he said that I made a safe choice and that is the most important thing about driving a car. After looking at some stats it turns out most women would act the same. Men are more likely to skip safety like not fasten their seatbelts, drive under influence or make irrational decisions in general. While women maybe not that crazy on the road but are less likely to get into accident. Although most things like rashed wheels, broken bumpers, crunched tail lights, and swiped sideview mirrors are women doing. It never happen to me though - just saying :D
Statistics shows that men are more likely to cause accidents, and it confirms me in my conviction that most men driving style is more agressive than women. My dad is a really reasonable driver, when I was a kid we travelled a lot by car and I always felt safe driving with him. Now I try to implement his style of driving as my own.
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Unknown said…
Is that because less women actually drive a car? I mean there are a lot of stupid drivers on both sides and overspeeding is the least issue here. Braindead and lack of imaginary can be present both genders.
Woman are so attentively in driving cars.I would say, that they pay attention to small details not only when they are driving a car. I can't say that they are bad drivers, but it's too hard for them to make an important decision in substantial situations on the road. And what about statistics above,i would say that it s not true. Why? Every country has own percentage of girls and boys that are driving a car and percentage of car accidents is totally different everywhere.
Unknown said…
Women have been scientifically proven to be worse at using their perception of mirrors, therefore causing more hazards than men. I was told by a driving instructor :D
Jakub Lisicki said…
I don't want to separate good and bad drivers solely by their sex. I believe that there are many incredibly good drivers among both of them. The main difference is that much more men are interested in this topic. That doesn't make them good drivers. I know many people who drive irresponsibly as well as ones that are perfectly sane on the roads. The most obvious men's mistake on the road is being too aggressive. They like to drive too fast, almost in as if they were part of some action movie. Personally, I'm a pretty responsible driver. I don't drive too slow, but I don't know a single person that would be afraid to take a ride with me as a driver.
Unknown said…
In my opinion we shouldn't differentiate drivers by their sex. There are many factors that make a driver a good one or bad one. I think that men are much more dangerous on the roads, because they are likely to be to cocky and it can lead to a terrible accidents.
Yevhen Shymko said…
It's quite natural for woman to be more caution on the road in comparison to man since we are biologically different and woman programmed by society to raise children and biology insure woman safe behavior by not giving them any positive body response after engaging in dangerous situations in contrast to males who getting endorphin's after each adrenaline rush.
Maciej Główka said…
When I see driver who does risky moves, can't decide where to go, etc. it is almost always a woman. I agree with you, that men have more aggressive driving style, but in my opinion being not decided where to go on a road, doing unconventional moves is bigger threat on the road than being aggressive. I don't say that every woman is bad driver. Unfortunately, I can't find any good woman driver in my close family and friends.
Marcin Górski said…
I think that we men have more aggressive driving style than women. They are driving faster and make more dangerous moves. I can't say that women are worst drivers but however I have seen a person who don't know what to do on a street it was a woman :P
Finally, everybody should be careful on the street, not only women!
Unknown said…
I wouldn't say men or women are better than the other as a driver. From my experience, I know many examples of perfectly good woman driver and a bad man driver. I'd guess it all comes down to the expierence and confidence on the road. There are more men than women drivers for sure, men drive more aggresively, women driver more cautiously and that explains the accident statistics. Parking a car... oh well, don't know why but women tend to have more difficulties with parking a car. It's true that men have better spatial orientation so that's maybe why. I also noticed that women focus too much on what's ahead of them on the road instead of what's generally around them. That caused few dangerous situations on the road I've had to deal with.
Definitely, women are better drivers. We have ability to coordinate many things at the same time. We often have children in the car and we have to deal with many issues provoked by them. Every day I take my 3 kids to the school and back and I have to talk to them simultaneously, while – believe me – each of them has to receive my answer just in the same minute and everybody wants something else. They require switching on the music, each of them has its own preferences, wants to listen to different song than the others – and all the time I have to solve many problems, while driving.
So I must be a very good driver, don’t I?
If we are talking about make-up in the car, we have to remember about men shaving – I saw it many times in Warsaw.
This is so true. I got this situation yesterday when i was following some guy in new mondeo going 100km/h taking left side of Grota Roweckiego and some little car swiched to our line like 20m further going maybe 50. Lucky we managed to brake without accident. It turned out as soon as we overtook this car, it was some older woman barerly handling steering wheel. Would it be our fault in this situaton or her? There was no need to switch lanes for her as all(lanes) were going streight for 500m or more and left, and middle one for like 100km.... But still we would hit her...
Foodocado said…
In my opinion men are better drivers than women. They have ability to make quick decisions, their reflex is better (i think it's because they play video games more often) and they are not afraid of driving. However they like to overspeed and it's often the reason of many accidents.

My style of driving is rather dynamic. It's because my father used to drive aggressively when i was younger.

Statistics can't lie, but it's worth paying attention to the fact that many more men drive cars than women. In my opinion, this can affect statistics. In many cases, accidents in the parking lot aren't reported, so they may not be included in these statistics. It's worth notice this fact because in my opinion women are responsible for such offenses to a large extent.
Unknown said…
"Statistics can't lie" - this is a funny statement considering the fact, that statistics is based on assumptions and generalisation :)
Unknown said…
I guess it's an obvious truth, that generally men are more reckless and women are more cautious. No wonder car accidents stats tell us the same. It's still a generalisation though and everything depends on skills of particular person.
Unknown said…
I think woman are just different drivers than men. They think differently and drive differently. In some ways they are better than man but in some worse. For example , as said in article, woman drive more careful.
Unknown said…
"Women are good drivers" should be followed with "because they drive 10 to 15 kph under limit on dry road in a sunny day". It's no wonder that usually the car sleeping on the left lane is being driven by a woman- GPS told her to "keep left", even though it's an expressway with 5 lanes where only two go in the other direction...
The same goes with panicking in some slow and/or usual situations - be it some bigger intersection or when you are approaching a truck on the expressway. Where men would usually get their surroundings faster or calmly approach the truck, women tend to do "some dumb things" that can result in crashes - be it turning rapidly or squeezing in front of the car on left lane, just before the said truck, as if she didn't have any brakes to use...

While most women tend to drive unpredictably or overly slow, I know some of them who actually drive better (and waay faster) than some men I know. I think that they are more self-confident and thanks to that, they drive normally.

Unfortunately, when it comes to parking, they are all the same - It's ironic that a lady can see place for yet another dress in her closet, but she can't fit a compact-sized car on one, large parking spot. And the worse the woman parks her car, the bigger it usually is... Ah these SUV-dozers, taking 1,5-2 places, parked at any angles but the proper ones...
Well, woman tend to drive slower, so by definition also safer. Basing on those statistics is pointless, since if you wanted to actually make some assumption proven by actual data then you'd need to test how man and woman behave under same speed, and not just general accidents data. For the same reason you can't assume that those numbers are correct, since there are less woman on the road, so once again generalization doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
We live at a time when there is equality in the world, then why are we still raising this issue? All people are different and in my opinion, your sex can not influence your computency in driving a car ...
I think that it depends on the character of the human and not his sex. However, I would say that women are often driving more safety than men. That's the reason why men are the causes of cars accidents. But as i said before we should not differentiate drivers by their sex.
I also think that women are more careful at driving than men. My mom drives very neatly, and Dad likes to overtake other drivers and always hurries somewhere.
But alas, many girls are too stupid to drive. They do not understand that not only her life depends on her, but also the lives of pedestrians. Many are more worried about how they look at the wheel. For them, the machine is a confirmation of status. But of course, this does not apply to all the girl's drivers.
In my city a few months ago there was an accident. The girl failed to manage and crashed into the crowd of people who were waiting for the bus. There were a lot of deaths. Then it turned out that the girl was drunk. She was not afraid to go to such a state because her dad was an official in the city government. Such cases have occurred in men, but the main problem is that such people are confident that they will get away with everything.
I do not feel responsible enough to be a driver, prefer a passenger seat.
I think most of women thinks that if they are driving slowly - they are driving good. Parking with them takes forever and I can say that but working with many of them through the years.

Those things written in the article are really all bad driving woman sins and should be punished as much as they can:
1. Not accelerating while joining a road to match the speed of other vehicles.
2. Not keeping the right lane when not overtaking on a multi-lane road.
3. Not using mirrors.
4. Not taking into account that other drivers also are real people.
5. Not knowing about the zipper method for merging traffic.
6. Not using indicators.
Unknown said…
I have been driving for 14 years already and I hate being compared to these ladies in small cars, where the backseat is covered with stuffed toys:) maybe it doesn't sound modest, but I consider myself a cool manual driver. I like to travel by car, I like night rides and I can't leave without driving. I like to drive fast, but only if I am alone in the car, and if there are no other cars on the road. Sometimes when I have hard days, and I can't concentrate my attention, I just avoid driving.

In my opinion, men have more motivation to be good drivers. Because people say, that if you are a guy, it's a shame to be a bad driver. If you are a bad girl driver, people are ok with that.

Ok, I don't really like women on the road, but sometimes men are even worse. They are less polite, always in a hurry. But every time I see the car, that moves in a strange way, there is almost always a girl inside:D
Magdalena Popek said…
I got my drivers license as soon as I turned 18 and few months later I got a car. My parents told me the sooner I start driving on my own the better, so I started from driving to and from school every day, then I started visiting my boyfriend (he lived 150km away) by car and then moved to Warsaw, to I was always driving home instead of going by train. So those first years after getting my license were quite intensive when talking about gaining driving experience. I love driving and I agree to switch with my boyfriend only when I'm really tired. I don't know if women are better or worse drivers than men. They are just different. They may be considered worse because they take more time to make a decision or drive more safely? I don't know. One of the worst things you can do on a road is to hesitate. (I'm not talking about doing things without making sure you can do them, of course). You either do something or don't do it. If I want to pass a car, see a car approaching and I hesitate for a second I usually give up and wait for another chance to do it. Because if you hesitate and decide to do something anyway it may be a bit too late for that. And as far as I noticed women hesitate more than men. But on the other hand men tend to make decisions too quickly. I sometimes think they don't think about consequences. Both situations are dangerous.
Unknown said…
More and more women drive a car well. Women usually drive safely. Right, women often drive slowly and you can get nervous about it. Unfortunately, I must admit that some group of men is driving without thinking. Kings of roads. You never know what they can do. These drivers often don't know the rules of traffic - this is absurd!!! Did they win the driving license in Lays?
Patryk Pohnke said…
Personally, I think that in most cases men are better drivers than women. I don't like hesitation on a road and this is my biggest issue concerning female drivers. This can lead to serious accidents, cause it is very hard to predict reaction of stressed women or old people behind the wheel. Women have a lot of problems with high speeds. They drive very slowly on highways, which cause huge differences between speeds of cars on the same road. This makes accidents more likely to happen and if so their consequences are more serious.
Alicja said…
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." :)
Alicja said…
I am not a fighting feminist, because I have a lot of criticism towards the third wave feminism but when I read some of the comments, I do think that feminism is crucial. The comments are like coming from the dark ages.
Guys who believe that they are good drivers by nature? What is next, are white people better drivers? It is ridiculous.

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