There is a school of thought that says women are safer drivers than men and apparently this is a proven fact so no point arguing. safer is probably a better description than better anyway. I have noticed that it's always men who shoot past me and disappear when I am doing the legal speed......so irritating !
Verdun - the thing is the women especially at schools may be bad but they don't cause (it seems) the crashes or statistics (I have a special hatred for school drop offs).
I work as a primary school janitor and both men & women are as bad as each other. If it was one of there kids that got hit by a car all hell would let loose no doubt.
I think the chief feature of female bad driving, at least in the stereotype bandied about by some men, is indecisiveness and erratic driving. The chief feature of male bad driving seems to be impatience and aggression. I think the indecisiveness is more typical of a generation of women who were not brought up to be confident, and younger women are often more like men, in being more impatient and aggressive, but perhaps not to the same extent. I don't think the school run driving round here is particularly bad, but there are lots of places to stop outside the school, and typically about 50 - 70 children per primary school, which is low. You have to remember that the school run in the morning is often preceeded by a screaming match, frantic searching round the house for some essential object, the sudden realisation nobody cleaned their teeth, that someone left their packed lunch in the fridge, a traffic jam, and for many people, it is followed by some cutting remark from a boss about timekeeping when the parent is late for work.
As a pedestrian, the gender of the person that has nearly run me over is never the issue, its the selfishness! Totally oblivious that roads and pavements are for other people too! 'Really!' They say? ' what other road users? I'm totally oblivious to any consequences as I'm locked away in my little metal box, updating my Facebook status about the person I nearly knocked over! Lol!'
What I have noticed recently among young drivers is that more often than not it is young women who are more aggressive behind the wheel. Forcing their way past other vehicles, racing away from lights etc. As I say, it really does seem only to have happened recently, ie the last few years.
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There is a school of thought that says women are safer drivers than men and apparently this is a proven fact so no point arguing. safer is probably a better description than better anyway. I have noticed that it's always men who shoot past me and disappear when I am doing the legal speed......so irritating !
For all his impatience I drew up beside him at a roundabout 8 miles further on so he didn't gain much in his white delivery van!
Verdun - the thing is the women especially at schools may be bad but they don't cause (it seems) the crashes or statistics (I have a special hatred for school drop offs).
My dad used to say he never had an accident in his life but he was lucky to have just missed a few
when being driven by him I would have said CAUSED
The worst offenders are the parents taking their children to school. They'd drive their b****y weans into the classroom if they had the chance.
Glad I don't have to do school runs any more!
primrose - that's what my Dad was like! He gave me a lift once when the children were young and one was going to a party - never again!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I work as a primary school janitor and both men & women are as bad as each other. If it was one of there kids that got hit by a car all hell would let loose no doubt.
I think the chief feature of female bad driving, at least in the stereotype bandied about by some men, is indecisiveness and erratic driving. The chief feature of male bad driving seems to be impatience and aggression. I think the indecisiveness is more typical of a generation of women who were not brought up to be confident, and younger women are often more like men, in being more impatient and aggressive, but perhaps not to the same extent. I don't think the school run driving round here is particularly bad, but there are lots of places to stop outside the school, and typically about 50 - 70 children per primary school, which is low. You have to remember that the school run in the morning is often preceeded by a screaming match, frantic searching round the house for some essential object, the sudden realisation nobody cleaned their teeth, that someone left their packed lunch in the fridge, a traffic jam, and for many people, it is followed by some cutting remark from a boss about timekeeping when the parent is late for work.
As a pedestrian, the gender of the person that has nearly run me over is never the issue, its the selfishness! Totally oblivious that roads and pavements are for other people too! 'Really!' They say? ' what other road users? I'm totally oblivious to any consequences as I'm locked away in my little metal box, updating my Facebook status about the person I nearly knocked over! Lol!'
What I have noticed recently among young drivers is that more often than not it is young women who are more aggressive behind the wheel. Forcing their way past other vehicles, racing away from lights etc. As I say, it really does seem only to have happened recently, ie the last few years.