Parking, male only

unkel

Two spaces in this parking garage in Germany are hard to get into. You need to reverse into them. Therefore only men are allowed to use them

Original article from "Der Spiegel" in German

From "The Mail" in English

goz83

Class. He is bang on. How many times have I been delayed in a car park by a woman trying to drive straight into a spot that can only be reversed into? If only I had a cent for every time it's happened, I would be close to a euro now.

unkel

The interviewer mentions a study where people were observed parking. It takes a man 16s to park and a woman 21s. After that time, 75% of men are parked correctly and only 50% of women

But never mind studies or what some of us have observed ourselves, or seen on the internet , I'd have thought it is sex discrimination and thus illegal in most countries in the developed world to put up male only parking spaces

challengemaster

What's more worrying is that looks like braille in the middle of the symbol... :eek:

colm_mcm

Could be Volvo parking too

lau1247

challengemaster wrote: »

What's more worrying is that looks like braille in the middle of the symbol... :eek:

nah, just man swimmers

colm_mcm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Could be Volvo parking too

Try being a woman parking an S60. I once had a bloke stand on the path watching me and actually give me thumbs up for parking perfectly and then continue on his merry way :rolleyes:

pfff. i don't approve. :mad:

goz83

Deleted User wrote: »

Try being a woman parking an S60. I once had a bloke stand on the path watching me and actually give me thumbs up for parking perfectly and then continue on his merry way :rolleyes:

Must have been under 21 seconds and parked correctly :P

tossy

The Germans have the right idea,here's a photo i took in Munich ...

2Scoops

I can agree with rating spaces by difficulty, but then saying the difficult ones are for the 'men' is stupid.

shedweller

Maybe colour code them to identify the difficult ones??
Mind you, the difficult ones are often left alone anyway.

vard

Hey, women are superior parkers. I'd like to see a man attempt to park while jabbering away applying lipstick.

Voodoomelon

Must of missed it, but what's with the pennies in the picture?

goz83

vard wrote: »

Hey, women are superior parkers. I'd like to see a man attempt to park while jabbering away applying lipstick.

Could you please get your car off my chest when you're done with the lipstick!

shedweller

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Must of missed it, but what's with the pennies in the picture?

Some kind of sick game! The freaks!

Eric Cartman

about time, the best idea ive heard in a long time.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Herr Strobel, sind Sie ein Chauvi?


right to the point lads

Eric Cartman

bluewolf wrote: »

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Herr Strobel, sind Sie ein Chauvi?


right to the point lads

He isnt, think of this as a 'curves' gym , only for cars driven by men instead

mitosis

tossy wrote: »

The Germans have the right idea,here's a photo i took in Munich ...

Why is it in English in Germany?

goz83

Eric Cartman wrote: »

He isnt, think of this as a 'curves' gym , only for cars driven by men instead

Ah sure we all know if the rule is against the woman, it's sexism, but if it's against a man, it's just ignored. Most recently, some female political figure (can't remember who...maybe a member of the royal family) visited Ireland and a political meeting was arranged and no men were allowed. Counciilor Bacik was behind it. When the sexist card was raised, she said her male colleagues would have the opportunity to submit questions at a later date.

Mycroft H

I've had to park the car for my mother in the underground car park in Tallaght Hosp. Spaces are a wee bit tight

bijapos

unkel wrote: »

The interviewer mentions a study where people were observed parking. It takes a man 16s to park and a woman 21s. After that time, 75% of men are parked correctly and only 50% of women

It actually says the complete opposite.

It says that more than 50% of women parked their car correctly, but 75% of men parked their cars incorrectly (crookedly).

They use a survey done by the Daily Telegraph where they watched 2500 parking manouveres in a garage over 1 month. Link to the German article is here. (Btw it's NSFCJF - Not suitable for Classic Jaguar fans).

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Eine britische Studie, für die rund 2500 Menschen beim Einparken beobachtet wurden, belegt: Im Schnitt brauchten die Herren zwar nur 16 Sekunden, um ihren Wagen in die Lücke zu stellen, die Damen 21 Sekunden - aber dafür stand das Auto dann so, wie es sich gehört. Mehr als die Hälfte der Frauen parkte korrekt, die Fahrzeuge der Männer standen zu 75 Prozent schief in der Parklücke.

Eric Cartman

Eric Cartman wrote: »

He isnt, think of this as a 'curves' gym , only for cars driven by men instead

what?

goz83

goz83 wrote: »

Must have been under 21 seconds and parked correctly :P

12 seconds and perfect.
Yes. I timed it.

BigEejit

It looks like the mail got its data from here:
http://www.passsmart.com/blog/are-men-better-drivers

Last year, 40,863 women failed their driving tests for failing to control the vehicle while reverse parking. Only 18,798 men failed for the same thing. A total of 1,660,000 serious or dangerous mistakes were made during driving tests last year, with 56.7% of them made by female learner drivers.

and

The UK driving test currently has an overall pass rate of roughly 50% with pass rates for male learners being 6% higher than those of their female counterparts.

and

It has been estimated that male learners require about 36 hours of tuition to pass their driving test. In comparison, the average female learner passes after 52 hours of tuition.

http://assets.dft.gov.uk/statistics/releases/driver-rider-tests-instructor-statistics-supplementary-tables-2011-2012/driver-rider-instructor-statistics-supplement.pdf

At almost every age, male candidates had a higher car pass
rate than female candidates.

BigEejit

http://assets.dft.gov.uk/statistics/tables/drt0203.xls (available from http://www.dft.gov.uk/statistics/tables/drt0203/)

Numbers of people doing the test, by gender and age and pass rate

Male	        Female
Age	Pass rate	Pass rate
17	    56.6 	    53.7 
18	    49.8 	    47.1 
19	    49.0 	    44.3 
20	    49.6 	    43.5 
21	    50.4 	    44.2 
22	    50.8 	    44.0 
23	    50.8 	    43.7 
24	    50.0 	    43.5 
25	    49.4 	    41.8 
26	    48.6 	    41.1 
27	    48.5 	    39.5 
28	    46.9 	    39.3 
29	    46.6 	    37.9 
30	    45.4 	    37.4 
31	    45.4 	    36.4 
32	    44.1 	    34.9 
33	    44.2 	    34.5 
34	    43.0 	    34.0 
35	    41.3 	    33.4 
36	    41.7 	    32.4 
37	    41.9 	    33.3 
38	    42.7 	    32.5 
39	    41.3 	    32.6 
40	    40.2 	    31.4

Senna

The amount of times me and the missus are in a car park and she'll say "you wont fit in that space", doesn't mater if i'm driving a jeep or her yaris, every space is "too small":D

challengemaster

Anyone fancy presenting those figures to the RSA? :pac:

Senna

challengemaster wrote: »

Anyone fancy presenting those figures to the RSA? :pac:

Why?? they don't mention anything about speed?? Which we all know makes baby Jesus cry.

Cookie_Monster

BigEejit wrote: »

http://assets.dft.gov.uk/statistics/tables/drt0203.xls (available from http://www.dft.gov.uk/statistics/tables/drt0203/)

Numbers of people doing the test, by gender and age and pass rate

the steady decline by age is more interesting I would have thought. Surprising that at 40 you are so much less likely to pass

Tea 1000

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

the steady decline by age is more interesting I would have thought. Surprising that at 40 you are so much less likely to pass

Not that surprising really, if you're only sitting a test at 40 then you've no interest in driving and learning is more difficult the older you are.
Everyone knows deep down that men by and large are better drivers, but most won't admit it!