Childish 'women' drivers.....

Sam Quentin

Even acting more childish with their kids on-board.... Most women drivers are shít ok.. I'm a professional driver and I've been monitoring the situation closely for at least 3 years.. So I'm now in no doubt what-so-ever.. I'll give one example that happens unbelievably on a totally regular basis>> sitting at a T junction waiting to turn left, huge gap, I try to proceed and a 'woman' driver will either speed up(attempted murder I call it)to stop me proceeding or when I do actually get out! I'll look in my mirror to see a mental looking head or hands going up and down like she just received news of a death in the family!?!>..... I have endless data to prove my 'findings'... One example today, which prompted me to go ahead with my 'findings' was>> reversing(I know I promised myself always to reverse into a parking spot)out of a parking space at about 3mph, with at LEAST AT LEAST half my car now out of the space and visible from 'SPACE' a car decides to drive at me make a deep sharp right turn around me and park 15 yards up from me in another parking spot... Thank You.

gctest50

Any links to dash cam footage of same ?

Sam Quentin

I have endless footage which I don't save anymore.. Ok.. My findings are final. I'm driving 20 years and a 'professional' driver 10+years, I don't have road rage(lost that years ago)I'm just stating a fact... Most of my findings are either laughable(bordering on dangerous) or cringe-worthy(bordering on dangerous).

Arsemageddon

You might be a professional driver, but you sure aren't a professional writer.

Here's a tip, if you write FACT after every sentence it means your 'findings' are inarguable.

Ciderswigger

What do you mean 'women'? Are they or aren't they? Also saying you have 'findings' makes it sound like you haven't.

callaway92

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I'm a professional driver

Is that what taxis call themselves now?

Story Bud?

The evidence is indeed damning.

After all, you Sam, have been involved in all of these incidents.

Sam Quentin

I'm not here to argue with anyone(I can troll with the best). If you can't see on Irish roads what I'm talking about!? Then you probably need to take a good look at your own driving. Thank You.

BlondeMoment

Thats funny because I was driving behind a man today on a main road, we were coming up around a bad bend on this road when he slows down almost to a stop, again ...on a bad bend of a busy road....because there was a bag of chips sitting there that somebody threw out earlier.

Crappy drivers come with and without vaginas im afraid.

spurious

Sam Quentin wrote:

Most of my findings are either laughable...

Aye.

Realt Dearg Sec

Words like "data" and "findings" have seldom been so thoroughly abused. Can I assume by "professional driver" you mean taxi man? You sure rant like one...

Sam Quentin

As I said above, anyone disagreeing with me needs to take a good look at their own driving. Thank You.

BlondeMoment

Sam Quentin wrote: »

As I said above, anyone disagreeing with me needs to take a good look at their own driving. Thank You.

How does my story reflect badly on MY driving? Please tell me oh driver most professional..

Realt Dearg Sec

Sam Quentin wrote: »

As I said above, anyone disagreeing with me needs to take a good look at their own driving. Thank You.

I'd rather look at the way "professional drivers" drive, which is to say, utterly ignorantly of all other road users and the rules of the road. All the while devoting vast amounts of their day to pointing out the faults of other people's behaviour. The rules, it seems, don't apply to them.

All my data confirms these findings and if you disagree you need to take the driving test again. It's the law, sorry.

gctest50

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I have endless footage which I don't save anymore.. Ok.. My findings are final. I'm driving 20 years and a 'professional' driver 10+years, I don't have road rage(lost that years ago)I'm just stating a fact... Most of my findings are either laughable(bordering on dangerous) or cringe-worthy(bordering on dangerous).

upload a few bits of it so we can see

thread here on boards for it :

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057386855&page=77

Sam Quentin

BlondeMoment wrote: »

Thats funny because I was driving behind a man today on a main road, we were coming up around a bad bend on this road when he slows down almost to a stop, again ...on a bad bend of a busy road....because there was a bag of chips sitting there that somebody threw out earlier.

Crappy drivers come with and without vaginas im afraid.

BlondeMoment wrote: »

How does my story reflect badly on MY driving? Please tell me oh driver most professional..

so what.. It could have been a dog!?
So your question about your 'story' answers your question :rolleyes:

BlondeMoment

Sam Quentin wrote: »

so what.. It could have been a dog!?
So your question about your 'story' answers your question :rolleyes:

It doesnt matter, youre not supposed to stop on bends. Why would you risk damaging your car and countless others so carelessly like that?

The King of Moo

'My' 'findings' 'tell' 'me' 'that' 'men' 'and' 'women' 'can' 'be' 'equally' 'bad' 'drivers.'
'You' 'should' 'share' 'your' 'unedited' 'dashcam' 'footage' 'so' 'we' 'can' 'all' 'judge' 'for' 'ourselves' 'as' 'I' 'expect' 'you' 'have' 'a' 'confirmation' 'bias' 'against' 'women.'

The Backwards Man

If your exit from the T junction affects the progress of another vehicle in any way, then you're the sh1t driver OP. Sorry

My years of experience as a professional driver have taught me one thing

Those that think they know it all, know fcuk all.

From my own observations, yes, women drivers can be awful. Who hasn't passed a school and not muttered about the free for all. But suspect at a serious level, drink driving, speed where accidents may cause injury and death, more male drivers are involved. This is a pointer...almost 80% of fatalities are male...

http://www.thejournal.ie/road-deaths-ireland-2013-1252467-Jan2014/

cml387

With over 30 years of driving experience, I can sum up my rules of the road in this sentence:

"Beware of drivers wearing hats"

Thank you.

stoneill

he he
Women in inverted commas.

The Bishop Basher

I've got a big willy

dudara

Sam Quentin wrote: »

As I said above, anyone disagreeing with me needs to take a good look at their own driving. Thank You.

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I'm not here to argue with anyone(I can troll with the best). If you can't see on Irish roads what I'm talking about!? Then you probably need to take a good look at your own driving. Thank You.

It's not me, it's you.

punisher5112

My pockets hurt

Samaris

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I'm not here to argue with anyone(I can troll with the best). If you can't see on Irish roads what I'm talking about!? Then you probably need to take a good look at your own driving. Thank You.

Generally you're not supposed to admit it while staying in character but still 'kudos' for 'trying'.

seamus

"I have endless data to prove my findings.....but I don't have it any more".

You can indeed troll with the best of them my friend.

SEPT 23 1989

They are not bad drivers but they never let you out ever

michellie

Cringing hard.

kneemos

Least the guy has manners.A please and a thank you goes a long way.

dusty207

You seem to equate "professional" with "good"? A sh1t driver who starts making money from sticking a taxi sign on the roof is still a sh1t driver.
I think in your case we should equate "professional" with "arrogant".

kupus

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

They are not bad drivers but they never let you out ever

Ive noticed that as well. I wonder what the general consensus will be on that.

.G.

You seem to equate professional driver, ie driving for a living, as some sort of qualification that proves you've been trained to a higher level than anyone else. Are you a moment of the institute of advanced motorists or have any actual qualifications that prove you've been trained above and beyond the driving test in this country?

wuzziwig

stoneill wrote: »

he he
Women in inverted commas.

He must be talking about them transgender fellas.

:rolleyes:

fullstop

BlondeMoment wrote: »

Thats funny because I was driving behind a man today on a main road, we were coming up around a bad bend on this road when he slows down almost to a stop, again ...on a bad bend of a busy road....because there was a bag of chips sitting there that somebody threw out earlier.

Crappy drivers come with and without vaginas im afraid.

Could have chipped his windscreen

The Troll is not wrong though. He is careful not to say all women.
If I position my car to reverse into a space, sometimes a driver will pull up close to me, to make it a challenge. More often it is a woman. I think it is spacial reasoning.
He is right on the junction also. Near my work I have to use a junction with a yellow box. If there is a meter to the left of the box a car will hurry across to block a person getting out. Most often it is a woman or a taxi.

It doesn't mean that there are no stupid men drivers. Why is it a defense of women to say a man did something stupid? Like a cyclist defense is a driver did something also.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

From my own observations, yes, women drivers can be awful. Who hasn't passed a school and not muttered about the free for all. But suspect at a serious level, drink driving, speed where accidents may cause injury and death, more male drivers are involved. This is a pointer...almost 80% of fatalities are male...

http://www.thejournal.ie/road-deaths-ireland-2013-1252467-Jan2014/

The stats are misleading. Male drivers do many more hours driving. So of course they are involved in more serious accidents.

seamus

Deleted User wrote: »

The Troll is not wrong though. He is careful not to say all women.
If I position my car to reverse into a space, sometimes a driver will pull up close to me, to make it a challenge. More often it is a woman. I think it is spacial reasoning.
He is right on the junction also. Near my work I have to use a junction with a yellow box. If there is a meter to the left of the box a car will hurry across to block a person getting out. Most often it is a woman or a taxi.

This is probably confirmation bias.

How often have you seen someone do something stupid, thought, "deffo a woman" and then been surprised that it was a man?

Simple fact is that you only notice when it's a woman because most people have been pre-conditioned with the notion that women are bad drivers. Women included. So a woman who does something stupid, is just a woman driver. A man who does something stupid is a freak occurrence.

Taxi drivers are actually the worst drivers. That's not a bias, they're just really sh1t at driving.

As a cyclist I find women to be the most consciencious drivers. Men and taxis are far more likely to take risks with close passes and last-minute turns.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

The stats are misleading. Male drivers do many more hours driving. So of course they are involved in more serious accidents.

Oh I appreciate that, hence I specifically said "a pointer".

But you think only a 5th of the overall time drivers spend on roads involve women driving?

seamus

seamus wrote: »

This is probably confirmation bias.



Taxi drivers are actually the worst drivers. That's not a bias, they're just really sh1t at driving.

As a cyclist I find women to be the most consciencious drivers. Men and taxis are far more likely to take risks with close passes and last-minute turns.

Why is it bias for me and not for you?

I agree with your last sentence, but I have been hit three times on a bike, one by a man who ran a red, one by a woman who cut a bend, one by a woman who reversed out onto the road across me - she also hit a car along side of me.

silverharp

I cant say I have noticed anything over the years as a driver between male and female drivers although I'd wager Ive been tailgated more by male drivers , its the one thing that annoys me. As a pedestrian defo more women holding mobile phones taking corners.

OldNotWIse

Sam Quentin wrote: »

Even acting more childish with their kids on-board.... Most women drivers are shít ok.. I'm a professional driver and I've been monitoring the situation closely for at least 3 years.. So I'm now in no doubt what-so-ever.. I'll give one example that happens unbelievably on a totally regular basis>> sitting at a T junction waiting to turn left, huge gap, I try to proceed and a 'woman' driver will either speed up(attempted murder I call it)to stop me proceeding or when I do actually get out! I'll look in my mirror to see a mental looking head or hands going up and down like she just received news of a death in the family!?!>..... I have endless data to prove my 'findings'... One example today, which prompted me to go ahead with my 'findings' was>> reversing(I know I promised myself always to reverse into a parking spot)out of a parking space at about 3mph, with at LEAST AT LEAST half my car now out of the space and visible from 'SPACE' a car decides to drive at me make a deep sharp right turn around me and park 15 yards up from me in another parking spot... Thank You.

Your use of quotations here suggests you are actually talking about men.

Winterlong

Why is it that we need to categorise other drivers whose driving style we dont like?
White van man.
Women.
Foreigners.
Foreign women.
Men.
Boy racers.

None of us are perfect drivers....and I would bet that if you drive the length any motorway in the country you will see all types of drivers using their mobile phone when driving, driving in the middle lane when not passing, switching lane without indicating.

I reckon we, as a nation, are mostly bad drivers.

Shenshen

Winterlong wrote: »

Why is it that we need to categorise other drivers whose driving style we dont like?
White van man.
Women.
Foreigners.
Foreign women.
Men.
Boy racers.

None of us are perfect drivers....and I would bet that if you drive the length any motorway in the country you will see all types of drivers using their mobile phone when driving, driving in the middle lane when not passing, switching lane without indicating.

I reckon we, as a nation, are mostly bad drivers.

I wouldn't say bad as such. Just careless. And on occasion rather rude and angry.

screamer

So a penis makes a grown up good driver? I've heard it all now.

wuzziwig

screamer wrote: »

So a penis makes a grown up good driver? I've heard it all now.

I'd say it comes in handy to change the gears with when you have a phone in one hand and the steering wheel in the other.

Rockstreams

screamer wrote: »

So a penis makes a grown up good driver? I've heard it all now.

I don't think you understand the difference between correlation and causality?

Do you think having a mousatache causes heart disease?

Samaris

Rockstreams wrote: »

I don't think you understand the difference between correlation and causality?

Do you think having a mousatache causes heart disease?

I think it's the OP you need to be asking that of

love humanity

There are many "shíte" male drivers and many "shíte" female drivers. It depends on the individual.

Samaris

Lorry drivers are my pet peeve still. I've had far too many close calls of them passing me on a bike with the closest possible margin of error so I get caught in the backdraft and then HONK.

***hats.

Bumski

After years of observation, I don't see that women are especially poor drivers. The most careless drivers appear to me some men, specifically middle aged men, driving Mercedes. Amongst other things, either Mercedes have omitted the indicator lever entirely from their cars, hidden it, or is it possible that these guys are just too inconsiderate to use them?