Better drivers: men or women?

Bard · 2002-03-09 12:16:50

Simple question, really. I say men. Seriously.

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#32 11-03-2002 07:44PM

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Anyone remember that story from last year in England with the two women fighting for a space in the central divide of a wide street which was caught on CCTV.Push me pull you! Great stuff, you dont see men doing that sort of thing.

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#33 11-03-2002 08:36PM

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Originally posted by Bard

Oh amp who art so wise, perhaps you'd like to explain to me what other options there are/should be?

It's a straight simple question... men or women.

"Don't knows" or "don't cares" are therefore "don't votes".

"Neither", would be my choice, and a valid (and indeed wise) one at that.

Oh and Seamus, isn't the N81 wonderfull? It's got more curves than Jennifer Connelly.

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#34 11-03-2002 09:20PM

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out of the options given i have given women the vote. i have seen women do a lot more dangerous driving. it is the same when they are passengers, with some of the women i know at least. screaming about hitting something which is about 20 meters or so away. while doing so putting off the driver. the option that should be included is the elderly. loads of them don't have a clue. i have seen them going through the middle of roundabouts of all things and sitting so upright there is a space of about a meter between the seat and their back

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#35 12-03-2002 01:15AM

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MEN

because I am one

All these stats claiming men are responsible for more road deaths etc., how exactly are these compiled? For example, I'm driving home late at night, within the speed limit, sober and what not, drunk person walks out in front of me, gets killed. Do the stats record this as being a male causing a death on the road?

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#36 12-03-2002 01:23AM

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The answer is : men are better drivers.

You're all agruing about who's a safer driver

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21663

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#37 12-03-2002 01:26AM

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hmmm

he's right you know

Commence sexism!

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#38 12-03-2002 11:37PM

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Originally posted by Mossy Monk
out of the options given i have given women the vote.

looking at this thread again i have read the question wrong. women are the worst offenders not men.

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#39 13-03-2002 12:01AM

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not to point out the obivious but who bring the insurance up.........????? in reality, men do! see this is another one of those threads that can go on and on til it loses all meaning. my vote goes to women, they are the better driver!!!:D

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#40 13-03-2002 03:21PM

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Not all Women are bad Drivers.
But, all Bad Drivers are Women Drivers!!!!!!!!!!!

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#41 13-03-2002 04:07PM

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Men (when they're sober

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#42 13-03-2002 05:07PM

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Originally posted by Missy
not to point out the obivious but who bring the insurance up.........????? in reality, men do! see this is another one of those threads that can go on and on til it loses all meaning. my vote goes to women, they are the better driver!!!:D

Yes this is true missy,

But were you aware that any time some scumbag goes out and robs a car and they crash it, that that gets added in to the statistics of male car colisions.

Now i dont believe ive ever heard of a case of a woman joy rider have you?

Anyone know on average how many cars in Dublin a night get stolen joy rided and crashed, i think it would be a very interesting figure.

I also feel that men are often too cocky at the wheel and hence this is why you see boy racers accelerating from 0 to 60 mph between speed bumps which are 100 m apart from eachother.

lame.

I know a group of young folks who are mechanics and they all drive Escorts and they think they are the dogs bollicks, but in reality they are the ones most likely to cause death on the road and i honestly think that they go on like this to impress the trophy girlfriend in the front seat or just to look cool.

Now Ireland is renound to be a claiming nation(it has the most expensive insurance for the whole of the e.u) and always has been, people will go to any extent to try and get a few quid off the insurance companies, i would imagine it is men that make the majority of claims, what else do we now about human nature that in general greed seems to appeal more to men than women.

money power etc.

In France the difference in price of insurance between men and women is next to none! explain that for me?

Well, vehicles that crash with no insurance do not get accounted for within their statistics.

My point is not men are better drivers (which they are )

My point is that the basis on which these claims are made are absoloutly herendous.

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#43 13-03-2002 05:41PM

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Originally posted by Bard
Simple question, really.

I say men.

Seriously.

Ur right.Women Have lots of small crashes, but men are usually responsible for the serious crashes.
So really women crash more often than men.

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#44 13-03-2002 06:00PM

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Men are more adaptable behind the wheel than women (as someone pointed out about women driving the way they're taught). I've seen (from the wrong end of another car), women freezing 20 metres from another car that's jsut pulled out and ploughing straight into the side of the car after realising to break only 10 5ft away in the wet and rain.

I've seen absolutely down right dangerous women drivers, but not because of speeding or any attrocious handling of their cars - indecision. Doing something so totally unexpected to anyoen else on the road that it causes an accident.

BUT ... men do tend to have more serious accidents (due to speed), and also our insurance may be that little bit higher because we tend to be far more prepared to claim for the slightest knock to our "pride and joy", etc.

Note: I do not drive, but have arrived at this from YEARS of observation

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