Woman-driver - evil or not?

Woman have a bad driving reputation in my country and we love to make jokes like "This can be only done by a woman" when the driver does something stupid.
Well, as a former motorcycle driver, trust no one in the streets... even less in womans..

I think that troll drivers are the worst ...

When women / men really learn to drive its a really good experience, otherwise its total chaos.
A couple days ago I got hit at a department store while backing up (with my hazard lights on). Why people are so slow in processing information, and then reacting appropriately based on that information is what I don't understand.

i remember reading something in evolutionary psychology about how women tend to have lower spatial awareness than men.. something to do with hunter-gatherer evolutionary discrepancies. i don't remember the specifics though

if you think that women drivers are bad and irational then you have never met bald bmw driver, those guys dont even know what signaling is, they ignore lanes, speed limits think that trafic lights are just some recomendation

┐(´Θ`)┌ Don't mind.
As humans grow older, they “confidently drive!” And “cause accidents”

There is no gender relationship.
Everywhere, “humans who have shed their brains in the toilet” are inhabited.
In any case, those who cause frequent traffic accidents and that cause traffic accidents should be studied in Area 51.

Unexpectedly, the body may have a chuck and the contents may be different.👽👾

I often was an witness of women-drivers irrational actions and have my own opinion about them

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But in my opinion car-driving is not women stuff.

Reads like confirmation bias to me. I find it quite shocking that there are still people with such bigoted and sexist views. Even the poll is sexist, the only seemingly female-positive option ("We have to respect women-drivers") is worded as though there is no choice.

I choose to respect everyone, irrespective of age and gender. However individuals, through their actions may lose my respect. That does not mean that entire group does though.

Want to know the real reason women have such bad driving reputations? Men like OP.

Years ago, women didn't drive cars, only men did. Women stayed at home, cooked, cleaned, popped out babies, looked after babies, did all the child-rearing, while the men were like "wife I'm home, where's my dinner." Time moved on and women are no longer house slaves, they have careers and drive their own cars. Some men were totally intimidated that suddenly women had the same "toys" that they do. "What? Women can't drive. Only men can operate machinery. Hurr durr." And so, some neanderthal men, to this day, think that women shouldn't be independent, they shouldn't drive or have careers among other things. They make themselves feel better by making fun of how women drive cars. It makes them feel more macho. Well... whatever floats your boat.

So, while the majority of men have moved on and appreciate that we are all human beings who can indeed operate machinery, this thread is showing us who are still the neanderthals who want "WOMAN TO GO BACK TO COOKING ON FIRE IN CAVE." =)

From my point of view the Jedi are evil.

You must be delusional or something, most men feel generally comfortable behind the wheel, and that as always lead to some terrible decisions.
Some men drive while inebriated, some men drive well above the speed limit, some men see a race opportunity in a traffic light, one very common around where i live is to drift roundabouts at 3am. I wouldn't even get in a car if i lived in India or Russia.

Even i, did so dumb shit, during the first 2 years after getting my licence.
Statistics aside, if i would choose one of the 2 to get rammed by, i would take the less deadly.

I was involved in an accident with a woman, who barely scratched my car. But i've seen my fair share of dreadful accidents created by men or old folk.

as a woman myself i have to admit that i often catch myself thinking similarly....
e.g. if i see someone driving in front of me awfully and i sometimes think " must be a woman" or i overtake them and see that it is a woman and think " that was to be expected that it was a woman".
but there are also a lot of men out there who prove themselves as awful drivers as well. i see more men with their phone at their head than women (dont they have free speaking device or something?? even in new cars.)

I'm on the road on a daily basis. And tbh, when something "odd" happens on the road its most often a female driver.
More accurate, an old(er) female driver. Its not sexist imo, its a hard fact. Some of them drive like shit and I dont understand why they even got their permit. My wife agrees with me on that part (so it must be true. lol)
Never been in an accident though.

But the most dangerous situations I have ever been in (and some were really close) were created by males. Young kids with no driving experience who just want to go fast from a to b. Truckdrivers. And the elderly. Omg, the elderly are the most dangerous species on the road.

Old driver: well I use glasses to read but I don't need them for driving! Hey that road has a lot of bumps!

Pack of kindergartners: dies.

Or:
Old guy: I don't look at road signs - I was driving this road before you were born.
Huge stop sign (+smaller about traffic change): Am I joke to you?

Sorry for bad jokes. I have seen both male and female drivers that were dangerous. But nothing compares to old people.

I disagree but I am not going to harass you for your beliefs. Take care :]

to me, it looks more like there's a lack of driving practice.

like housewives who don't drive more than 5 minutes each week to get the groceries.
same goes for most old people plus they suffer from old age itself.

i guess i'm a little rusty myself since i barely use my car to get around. bike and train do the job just fine. and you don't need to look for a bloody spot to park your car.
at the same time i used to drive to school with a friend of mine back in the days. he always drove like a housewife indeed and even years later that didn't change at all. despite using his car almost daily to cover long distances! my theory fails to explain that. maybe some folks are just bad drivers...

idiots exists anywhere, it's your job to be on the lookout and keep a safe distance between them and yourself
also check this out here

What a can of worms to open! 😂

Everybody is human, we all make mistakes. I'm living proof of somebody else's mistake ζ༼Ɵ͆ل͜Ɵ͆༽ᶘ I've also made some stupid and horrible mistakes. Gender does not mean one side is inherently worse than the other. Age group is more of a factor.

Oddly enough though, in these past few weeks alone I have almost been backed into by 3-4 separate husband and wife vehicles on my neighbourhood streets. The one main similarity is that they all DID NOT LOOK while reversing and just assumed that since it was early in the morning nobody else was on the streets. Just like I'm assuming that's the entire situation right now.

Point is, we don't have any idea what's going on in another person's life. They could be enduring some type of trauma, or the latter, they could just be ignorant and not paying attention to what they are doing.

My old friend (male) also put his vehicle in reverse and slammed into a parked car across the street. Evil male driver?

My sister was t-boned by a female driver as she was in a hurry and not paying attention. Evil female driver?

Both people in those situations were NOT giving their full attention.

Just my dollars worth.

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In my experience, drivers today tend to be shit, period. What sex they are is irrelevant. You know how many times I've passed people on their phones drifting across lanes, or not signaling, or running lights, or not looking before they turn? Literally every trip. And some of them I even know (small town) and they all think they're the best, safest drivers on the road, but those shitty women drivers, or kids, or old people, they're the real problem.

Basically what I'm saying is everyone sucks at driving and chances are youve done some dumb shit too, even if you didn't realize it.

I believe this picture will answer all of your questions:

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I do think that while men drive more recklessly, women tend to not pay attention to the road. So both sexes can (and sadly, will) cause accidents, but for different reasons.

Also, I don't think it's fair to call the OP "sexist" when he says he's had bad experience with female drivers. But that's the modern age for you, so... SEXIST!

Evil seems kinda too big word for such a situation to me.

From what I've noticed both men and women are bad drivers in similar numbers but the reason is slightly different:
– women are underconfident,
– men are overconfident.

Just like in every other aspect of life, underconfident people are obviously easier targets to put a blame on.

I actually quite like this thread. Opinion expressed by OP is mainstream here in Russian, and one rarely can meet an almost unanimous reaction to it (like in this thread); it's nice to see that not everyone is a sexist on this planet for a change.

I don't drive a car and hopefully I won't ever have to, but as a passenger I prefer female drivers I had experience with to male ones. Women I know drive more carefully, swear less and don't smoke in the car.