Who's better men or women at driving?

Actually it's clearly not the truth and it's stereotypical. You have asian drivers in the top lines of most motosport including some in f1 as recently as the last two years with Chandhok and Karthikeyan.

Maybe they're not as good as Vettel/Alonso but being the 20th best driver in the world is still very impressive...

I was at my cousins house the other day and we had a whole debate about women being very bad drivers. What do y'all think?


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This basically. I have driven with many women and while they are the most safest drivers on the planet you can tell that they are not masters of the vehicle. However when driving with men You can tell that they feel the soul of that car and are virtually telepathically attuned to every cog and axle. Unfortunately because of this they tend to drive really aggressively and unsafely. So my answer is that it depends on the situation. If it was off-road or some high speed Autobahn driving then men are the better drivers. But in the city trundling along on a 30 mph road women win.

Even then, I'm not sure I entirely agree.

Admittedly, men are more aggressive than women on average; but if you think about the number of minor accidents as a result of carelessness (e.g. while 'trundling along on a 30mph road), the culprit is a woman nine times out of ten. Also, if you remove chavs from the equation, men are confident but at the same time know what they're doing, and so usually remain safe.

I think what it comes down to is that while men are generally (sometimes overly) confident, women are often careless.

Yes, if better solely meant how safe you are then you'd be right. But unfortunately for your argument "better" can also be defined by how much driver skill you possess. So deciding which gender is "better" isn't as simple as you're trying to make out.

But the main skill in driving IS to be safe. Everything you learn is about safety! Checking mirrors, not going over the speed limit, checking constantly for potential hazards which could compromise your own or other peoples' safety. So surely, if you're trying to determine how good a driver someone is, the very first thing you would look at is: are they a SAFE driver?

Yes, women are mostly safer, but you are only looking at one aspect of driving. If we're going to use the word "better", driving competency has to be looked at in equal measure. Would you say an experienced female driver of over 20 years is "better" than the average formula one driver? If so or not, how are you defining better? It becomes really complicated because in reality you can't compare them like for like. They are both good drivers in their own ways.

I'm talking about day-to-day driving, you can't really compare that to F1 driving since only a handful of people actually do that Anyway, it's just my opinion, you don't have to agree with it

This study i found said that women are better drivers:
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-study-shows-women-are-better-drivers-than-men

I know only a handful of drivers are in formula one, I was just using it as an example to show the different interpretations of the word "better". So the amount of people actually in F1 doesn't negate my point. Would you like it if I said "race drivers" instead?

And even if we're solely talking about day to day driving my point will still stand. Are you telling me driving competency plays no part in that? But anyway, lets go over a few facts:

- Men drive more miles than women on average
- Men drive more types of vehicle
- Men get into more serious accidents
- Women get into far more scrapes and bumps but less serious accidents
- Women are on average less confident behind the wheel

Interpret that as you will, but it now becomes safety vs competency. The gender that is on average better at both (safety & competency) is the ones that should be labelled the "better" drivers. Because quite clearly women are safer and men are more competent if we're going to generalise here.

And yes, its your opinion, but if you don't want it challenged don't post it on a forum.

There are a million different ways to look at the issue and define all the different parts of the argument, but it always boils down to the same thing, the same stats, that women cause fewer crashes, are therefore safer, and some people including me sees this as meaning that they are better drivers - which explains why until recently we had much lower insurance costs.

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There are a million different ways to look at the issue and define all the different parts of the argument, but it always boils down to the same thing, the same stats, that women cause fewer crashes, are therefore safer, and some people including me sees this as meaning that they are better drivers - which explains why until recently we had much lower insurance costs.

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Well we all know there's good drivers and bad drivers of either gender; however, I think one thing is for sure, men can be very aggressive drivers. In my experience, nine times out of ten, the person up your backside (when you're already doing 10 over the limit) is a man. Or that crazy person on the highway in the souped up Civic weaving in and out of traffic without signalling (at rush hour). Also probably a guy. This is why men pay higher insurance rates.