The truth about women drivers...!

I'm a woman and I understand your point. When me and my husband started going out, he told me that women are bad drivers and I immediately defended women and told him he is discriminating us. But as time goes by and we would go for a drive everyday I see that he is right. Most of the time we have to slow down because the car in front of us is too slow. Sometimes this can also cause an accident, like she would suddenly slow down, and the car following her would have a split sec to react and step on the break. Another example is often time we cant park in an empty space because the car next to the spot took up half of our space, and then we would just find out that a woman parked the car. I would have to admit I dont know how to drive and I dont think I'll ever learn. But I also know that there are women that are excellent driver, its just that majority of us are not that good. I guess we not a natural drivers.

Hi, Driving requires reflexes first and skills second. women are often tagged as careful drivers but the fact is that they are more cautious than men and sometime their being over cautious ends up in an accident. That women are sluggish and slow down the traffic holds truth and in my view this only because they have less reflexes. Men can take risk for they know where the vehicle would be at a given moment just to avoid any collision with any other vehicle or other things. Hence they are rapid in their action. Only because women are careful drivers there are less number of accidents. This however does not connote that men are not careful at all. Men too are careful while driving and the only difference is that men speed up with confidence and accidents take place with them who are over confident and rash. if we see the pros and cons of the whole affair of driving this is more of a men's job and yes they are better oriented.

Hi Wazaaa, this just is not true. I worked in auto insurance for several years and while it is true that women are more cautious, it is NOT true that they are bad drivers!!! In fact it is men who are more apt to get crazy on the road which in truth would make them the "badder" drivers. "Slow and sluggish" sounds more like the elderly people I always seem to be behind when I'm in a hurry to get somewhere and that is not limited to the women. There is a reason why women get lower rates on their insurance premiums than men do. In your opinion you can assume that "most women are bad at driving" but you are wrong to state it as a FACT because it isn't.

I am a woman and I am a limo driver I have been driving to our major airports for 20 years. Men are agressive. That is in their nature. I am a fast driver but I am not rude and agressive. If you see a car zipping in and out the 5 lanes just to get ahead, if you see a car tailgating to make you move over faster and if yu see a car flashing his lights to make you get out of the way.. It is a man driving .I have never had an accident and I always get my passengers there on time, safe and not scared. Believe me I have been scared by some of these drivers. So I do somewhat agree. women are by nature more passive and probably because of that better drivers , less road rage, and less accidents. I believe men get in more accidents becuase of their anger at other drivers. We have to realize people do not do what you want them to do so you have to adjust what you want and respond in a patient manner . This will keep everyone safe.. How often have you seen someone speed ahead of you zigzag all around people only to end up at the same place at the same time or worse end up being stopped by the police.. Is all that rage worth it? I think not.

dont be such a prat. Sorry but to say that "all female drivers" are bad drivers is pathetic. Can u answer me this: why is insurance cheaper for women..........???? Cause they don't get into as many accidents.....! And I have seen MILLIONS of terrible male drivers who act like complete prats and dont bother about anybody else on the roads, and the same can be said about SOME women...not all. Dont be such a ridiculous prat, have you been in a car or behind a car with every single female driver in the world at the seat??????And then the same with every male driver???? Because if not, then go get a grip. Couldnt u think of anythin else to write about so u thought ud have a go at female drivers?? Well tis ok all men can't last longer than 3 seconds in the bedroom, can't cook a meal, dont know how to work a hoover or pick up a mop, can are crap at DIY...!!!! Oh sorry am I generalising a little bit????? Sorry lovie dont mean to hurt your big fat male ego. What do u drive? A bicycle? Or noooo its a Reliant Robin isnt it....!!! Woooooop :):):):) Imbosile.

WHAT A LOAD OF TOSH!!!! There are good and bad drivers in both sexes and I consider myself to be a far better driver than a lot of male drivers I have encountered! Statistics have shown that while women are involved in more minor accidents, male drivers are more than three times likely to be killed in car accidents because of negligent driving meaning that men are more likely to take risks when driving. Even insurance companies think that women are safer drivers and they charge less for insuring women drivers because they think that generally they are a safer risk on the road. I think you view of men and women is going back to Jane Austin days were the 'little woman'embroidered, played the piano and wrote love sonnets!!

woo-hoo you sure lit a fire on this post-lol. hey, im just going to tell you. i am a woman at 4 years old,had my own three wheeler, by seven driving a stick shift datsun on the farm. at 10 got my first 250 honda. by 12 rebuilt mom's 76 capri. then actually obtained a legal license at 16, by 18 had 8 pink slips under my belt. drag raced the quarter on back roads (title for title) in an old 77 nova. and by the time i turned 22- i was driving cross country in my big old rig. yep-truckdriving was my money maker. to wrap this up and be completely honest yes women suck!! those dumb broads texting and talking on their damn cell phones tick me off!! they can't multi task worth a crap!! one day their children are going to see mommy being ignorant and try this maneuver too and they will lose their own child because of this stupidity. man, i wish i could defend the woman driver. i'm one broad that can handle power, speed, defensive driving and those retarded bimbo's that cut me off cause they're to busy asking their buddies if pink is really their color!!! ugh!!

I don't know about statistics, but I do know that I've seen bad and good drivers from both genders. I have a male acquaintance with whom I have no anxiety driving. His wife, on the other hand, YIKES! I don't know about poetry, and all that jazz, she just isn't paying any attention! Rifling through her purse for a pen..... HOld on to your seats, folks. On the other hand, I refuse to be a passenger in my sister's car, if she is going to be on the highway. She would be considered a "good" driver by your standards, because she isn't overly cautious. She is very aggressive and confident. Too confident, I would say. You don't drive a small compact behind a semi and between two semis in the rain at top speed. Guess who's strawberry jam, should things go wrong? And with little kids in the back, too? Oh, but I'm just a worry wort. Men are more pushy, in general and impatient. But I don't think either gender has the monopoly on "good" or "bad" driving.

My husband says the same thing. Whenever there is someone on the road driving him crazy, he says ' I bet that's a lady driver' and as we are passing, I check and sure enough it usually is. I am a woman myself and I have to admit that there is a truth to this. Once my husband had a funny conversation with a woman that made me laugh. The conversation went something like this: The woman said something about how usually it's the men who get into accidents. And my husband said something like "Yeah, because the woman in front of him is making him nervous..."

Definitely for me, drivers who are careful and not speed maniacs are better drivers. It is not a matter of being sluggish or what, but I think there is no substitute for being sure and careful. Men have the tendency to be aggressive while on the road and they have the tendency to be disrespectful as drivers but driving too fast endangering the lives of many.

Well I dont know, so much about that because when I drive I dont hold up traffic or none of that, but you can say that women love to look in the mirror when they drive put on make up and do crazy things to make sure that they look good for the day. Men on the other hand, men are in patient drivers they want to go, go, and go. Then you don't know what type of night that women had, me on the other hand I get mad when people all of a sutton decides that they want to make a turn at the last minute or see that im trying to get over with my signal so I just cut them off, LOL. So when it comes to driving you have to say it depends on the person, because its alot of men who can't drive they drive slow as I don't know what, and men are the cause of alot accidents, they can't drive without looking at a fine girl walking down the street then they end up crashing into something LOL. So like I said it depends on the person.

I think this discussion is going to create some sparks, but wanted to add my two cents anyway. I think this is true in some cases, but I do not think all women drivers are terrible drivers. I think it all really comes down to experience, I think some women when they learned to drive did not drive in all weather or some never even drove on the highway, so that causes a lot of problems. Before I got my driver's license my mom made sure I was comfortable driving in the rain, snow and the highway or I could not get my license. One thing I have noticed about women drivers though, if you let them in front of you, they hardly ever give the customary wave to say thanks, which really makes me mad. Also, more men will let you into traffic than women.

Ya, I think I am understand what are you thinking, we don't talk about woman hater, or any gender different using car to drive. But in fact women more emotional than men, may be this is will show to how they drive. May be women being too carefully or may be they gonna bo to careless. In the road everything is possible, so just being realistic, I feel more save if the driver is a man than woman.

no no no!!are you sure bout you are saying? so many cases that men are involved in unsafe driving.. the worst thing that happen always is that, men took liquors,and then driving while drinking..most men are involved to vehicular accidents.. do you know that there are women racers right now that beaten those men racers.if you me are artful, women could do it too.. we are artful too.

I have noticed that some - and note SOME - women are really bad drivers. But I've seen men make much more MASSIVE mistakes. The MORON that had his car do a 180º on an icy bridge was a MAN. Yes, a woman slid on a different icy bridge and hit a truck, but at east she wasn't fish tailing around while doing it. I have seen women cutting too tight in a turn and actually end up on the wrong side of the road, but at least they got back over to the correct side WITHOUT speeding up and jumping curbs... (like I've seen guys do.) I actually think the worst drivers are young men who, honestly, think they are smarter than anyone else on the road, just before they flip their cars 4 or 5 times because they were speeding and doing stupid things...

One cannot generalise about such things and things are changing now with many women drivers driving exactly like men drivers as fast and as bad at times...i have been driving for nearly 25 years now and consider myself a good driver as good or better than most men drivers in my city - I personally feel that women drivers are more cautious and that is not a bad thing at all...It is better to drive careful and at a slower speed than break rules and drive with absolutely no reagrd for rules and regulations...

I think that there are good and bad drivers represented in both sexes and that neither can be deemed better or worse than the other. To say that men are better than women is wrong and - as someone else stated - their insurance premiums are generally lower, which makes the original point a moot one. The lower premiums may well come about because women are more cautious; but that certainly does not mean that they are slow and sluggish. I have had bad experiences with both males and females on the roads. Only last week a woman travelling well in excess of the speed limit almost sideswiped me; while the week before that I witnessed a man hit a trolley bay as he attempted to manouvre his car into a supermarket carpark. My opinion is that drivers - whether they are male or female - should be careful and cautious when driving. That does not mean driving slowly but obeying the speed limit and being observant of what is going on around you.

I don't think you are a woman hater but I do think that you can't know too many woman that drive because if you did you would know that you shouldn't believe everything you read. I grew up around cars and can drive circles around most males I know. My first car at 16 was a fully worked 308 kingswood that I used to drag race down the quarter mile at oran park. The problem is that there are woman out there who don't know too much about cars because it is either something that doesn't interest them or there is nobody who will bother explaining basic mechanics to them. If more women bothered to learn about cars their confidence behind the wheel would increase because they would know what a car is fully capable of. I read somewhere not long ago that the majority of accidents is caused by teenagers thinking they own the roads or talking on their mobile phones. They are the problem on the roads now not women whose biggest fault is they probably do the speed limit and obey the road rules.

As long as the driver knows their rules and doesn't forget to indicate I don't have a problem. ...but women drivers...enough said