Why are man better driver than woman

At the end of the day, everyone could do with improving their driving skills, whether by better obeying speed limits or paying more attention.

Realistically, the debate shouldn't be about gender at all: the question should be, are you doing everything you can to keep yourself and others around you safe on the roads? Unravelling the statistics: Are men better drivers than women?

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Zofeur: all you need to know about Dubai pay-per-minute chauffeur service Motoring. Vanderbilt says these gender-based differences can't be used to conclude that either sex is better behind the wheel.

As a group, men seem to have the edge when it comes to car handling, but women appear to have better judgment. Vanderbilt says the end result is a wash: "I would humbly suggest that, in a bid to improve safety on the roads, we dispense with the idea that women are not as good at driving than men," he says. Both stereotypes are unflattering, and not strictly true.

The Harris-Decima poll, which questioned 1, drivers across the country, serves as a snapshot of Canadian driving habits and attitudes.

Questions about gender-based driving behaviour clearly struck a nerve - 35 per cent of poll respondents refused to answer when asked whether men or women were better drivers. I know lots of women who are better drivers than I am.

As Falconer notes, the incompetent female driver is a stereotype that dates back to a time when women weren't allowed to vote. Today, driving is a unisex activity, and the sight of a woman behind the wheel is anything but a novelty.

Some have wondered why so few women are involved in motorsports - despite a few high-profile female exceptions like Indy car racer Danica Patrick and former Top Fuel dragster champion Shirley Muldowney , car racing is an almost universally male activity. Williams, who spent more than a decade competing against men in stock car racing, says woman are theoretically equal to men on the race track, but encounter an overwhelming cultural obstacle when they enter the world of competition driving: "Everyone in the sport is male," she says.

The culture mitigates against them. Volkswagen Jetta leads charge as German auto maker tries to grow North American brand. Follow Peter Cheney on Twitter: cheneydrive Opens in a new window. Report an error. Editorial code of conduct. Skip to main content. Peter Cheney. The study begs for clarification, but he said it may not be possible to answer the question of why. At least one other study debunked the idea that men are better drivers than women are. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that female drivers were involved in slightly more crashes then men, but the difference was not all that great -- 5.

Age, in various studies, appears to be a more important issue than gender. Teenage boys start off badly, according to the Johns Hopkins study, with about 20 percent more crashes per mile driven than teen-age girls. Between the ages of 20 and 35 males and females are equally at risk of being involved in a crash, and after age 35 female drivers are at greater risk than males.

Other research has found that many factors, including gender, contribute to traffic accidents, especially those resulting in injuries. A Purdue University study found, for example, older men and women are much more likely to die from traffic injuries than younger persons, regardless of gender.

And according to another study just released by Sivak and Schoettle, just driving in a state other than the one in which you live can be deadly. They looked at fatal accidents in all 50 states and found a huge difference in the number of fatal accidents involving an out-of-state driver. Perhaps the vast plains of Wyoming lend themselves to higher speeds than the jammed freeways of California.

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