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Men are better drivers than women: top examiner

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LONDON (AFP) - The man in charge of driving test standards steered into controversy by claiming that men are better drivers than women.

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In his role as chief examiner for the government's Driving Standards Agency, Robin Cummins oversees 1.5 million driving tests each year -- and has concluded that male drivers display "more natural ability" than their female counterparts, according to The Sunday Times.

"Overall it does seem to be that men can pick up the basic skills more quickly," Cummins was quoted as saying.

"With young men there seems to be a lot more natural ability. Some females -- though not all -- take a lot more teaching".

Statistics showed that men are better at controlling and manoeuvring a car and need less tuition, Cummins said.

He told the broadsheet newspaper that current pass rates showed women needed more time and tests to pass, with the overall rate for women 40 percent compared with 46 percent for men.

Male drivers needed an average of 12.2 hours of driving lessons before passing their test -- while women need 15.3 hours -- and women were 40 percent more likely than men to fail the test when reversing or trying a three-point turn, he said.

Cummins -- whose job includes maintaining the standards of the 1,586 driving examiners throughout England, Scotland and Wales -- was quick to concede that "there are plenty of women who are excellent drivers and plenty of men who are terrible."

Motoring organisations leapt to the defence of female drivers following the accusation that they are inferior to men.

"This is the battle of the sexes that has been talked about for years," a spokeswoman for the British School of Motoring (BSM) said.

"BSM has found that there is no marked difference between the way men and women learn to drive," she said, noting that the age of the learner driver has a much bigger effect on their ability to pass a driving test.

Car insurance company First Alternative Insurance, a Halifax and Bank of Scotland firm, cited its discounted female car insurance rates as proof that the industry considers women drivers to have a better safety record than men.

The company unveiled a new women-only car insurance policy last year after a survey revealed two-thirds of male drivers showed a "need for speed", compared to only a third of women.

Data quoted by Cummins that women took an average of 2.12 driving tests to pass, while men need just 1.87 was also an insufficient indicator that male drivers were better, said Tony Vickers of the Association of British Drivers.

"It doesn't matter whether you pass your test in 10 or 20 lessons, there is never a good time to stop learning and never a time when caution isn't the most important thing on the road whether you are male or female," he said.
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Captain Obvious to the rescue!!
Of course men are better drivers. That's what we pay more for car insurance.


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My favorite example is how women always claim to be "just as good or better" drivers than men. However, if it snows here in Tennessee, women are always asking their husbands to drive them to work. Just goes to show... 😛
 
Hasn't it been known for a long time that men's brains are better with depth perception and spatial things like that?

 
Originally posted by: DougK62
Hasn't it been known for a long time that men's brains are better with depth perception and spatial things like that?
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Yes - I guess that is why they mentioned the statistic of reversing and 3-point turns.
 
My favorite thing is watching women drive suburbans and escalades, it always makes me smile and what minimal level of control they have over them. I have found that women in SUV's tend to be awful, I mean beyond awful to a level where awfulness no longer exists awful drivers, where as women in sedans and other non SUV cars tend to be just as good as men, go figure.
 
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
Captain Obvious to the rescue!!
Of course men are better drivers. That's what we pay more for car insurance.


Wait a second...
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Men are better drivers, but they also take more risks on the road because they think they can "make it"....or "beat the train!!"

Then again, women hit something with their SUV and keep going, not reporting anything to insurance. 😕
 
I have to pry my hands loose from the dashboard everytime my wife drives.

this is no surprise to me that men are better drivers.
 
Originally posted by: Chadder007
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
Captain Obvious to the rescue!!
Of course men are better drivers. That's what we pay more for car insurance.


Wait a second...
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Men are better drivers, but they also take more risks on the road because they think they can "make it"....or "beat the train!!"

Then again, women hit something with their SUV and keep going, not reporting anything to insurance. 😕
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Yes, men are more aggressive. But I believe women are involved or cause more accidents. With everyone I know that has been in an accident , all of those accidents were caused by a woman driver. I think raised rates for men is just another way for the insurance companies to make more money. Men generally make more money, so they have to pay more money. Statistics that the insurance companies benefit from, IMO, aren't reliable and do nothing but line their pockets.
 
Originally posted by: DougK62
Hasn't it been known for a long time that men's brains are better with depth perception and spatial things like that?
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yes, but it's not politically correct. Therefore, it must not be true.

In some ways Robert Cummins is a modern-day Galileo.
 
I've said this all along, I bet in 50 years we'll see the insurance trend reverse. If you think about it, men have ALWAYS been driving, where only in the last 30-40 years have women been driving more and more. Even when my older sister graduated from HS in 1992, only a few girls had their own cars - most relied on their boyfriends or parents to drive them. When I graduated, almost every girl had her own car. Thinking back, the girls had way more accidents too
 
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
Captain Obvious to the rescue!!
Of course men are better drivers. That's what we pay more for car insurance.


Wait a second...
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Probably pay more car insurance due to accidents causes by women

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i drive like a guy... and i find that men usually know what they are doing, and know what to expect from other men drivers. never know what to expect a woman is gonna do...
runs to get flamesuit.
 
Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Probably pay more car insurance due to accidents causes by women

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p.s.
i drive like a guy... and i find that men usually know what they are doing, and know what to expect from other men drivers. never know what to expect a woman is gonna do...
runs to get flamesuit.
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We need proof that you "drive like a guy"

 
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
Captain Obvious to the rescue!!
Of course men are better drivers. That's what we pay more for car insurance.


Wait a second...
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Actually I believe the reason that we pay more for insurance isn't that we get in more accidents, its the fact that statiscally accidents involving men cost more than accidents involving woman.
 
Originally posted by: Ynog
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
Captain Obvious to the rescue!!
Of course men are better drivers. That's what we pay more for car insurance.


Wait a second...
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Actually I believe the reason that we pay more for insurance isn't that we get in more accidents, its the fact that statiscally accidents involving men cost more than accidents involving woman.
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What do you think would happen in all of a sudden men's insurance went way down and women's insurance went way up?
 
I know some women that drive like guys, I find them hot and respect them a lot.

The other ones are sometimes so afraid of driving, they actually make their own situation more dangerous.
 
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