Toastedlightly
Diamond Member
haha, can't wait til the snow melts. I'll be taking my bro's SRT4 on the same route 😛 Gotta remember to avoid that damn pothole though.
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RANT: Why does it seem like women are always the worst drivers
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haha, can't wait til the snow melts. I'll be taking my bro's SRT4 on the same route 😛 Gotta remember to avoid that damn pothole though.
Siddhartha
Lifer
I vote for people on cell phones are the worst.
If I see someone on a cell phone driving near me, I get as far from them as quickly as I can.
If I see someone on a cell phone driving near me, I get as far from them as quickly as I can.
Spineshank
Diamond Member
Last year i bet i almost hit at least 25 times by a woman driver and only because i reacted fast did i not get hit.
LongCoolMother
Diamond Member
women tend to have worse technical skills in driving imo-- as far as judgement, spatial scaling, vehicle handling, traffic awareness etc. However, I find that male drivers are just as bad, if not worse, due to their incompetence in other aspects of driving. For example, how often are tailgaters men? Mind you, these aggressive types are usually found in large SUVs, suburbans and the type. They tailgate so close in a fat@$$ car so high that their headlights' brightness destroys any hope of you moving out of their way or driving faster.
fbrdphreak
Lifer
Yep.
I believe that's why women's insurance rates are lower - they may have more accidents, but those accidents are cheaper. When men have an accident, it tends to be....bigger 😀
Aikouka
Lifer
I had a guy (I think it was a guy...) who turned in front of me like that at an intersection. It was a warm and sunny day... he had a red light (I'd presume since he was in a left turn lane and my light never changed from green) and he just pulls out in front of me. The speed limit on this road is 55 and I was doing 55 (surprisingly), and I barely stopped to avoid the guy.
Old people tend to be pretty bad in my experiences. They also drive around their old decommissioned tanks... I mean Cadillacs that can survive nuclear explosions and still run.
I may not be an Asian woman, but I feel like commenting on this 😛. I don't scream, I get pissed. I hate when people don't use their turn signal and just veer into my lane. Especially if they see me coming up on them and can't wait a second until I go by to change lanes.
Although, I've never had an accident, never been ticketed.
Pull over and let them pass. If you're being tailgated, there's a good chance you're too slow. Typically the situations in which I'll tailgate is when those bastard illiterate punks can't read a damn sign that says "55" when the road goes from PA to NY and they keep going 45! Then they end up speeding through the area where it drops to 40. Bunch of morons I say!
JulesMaximus
No Lifer
Works for me. I voted for OJ. :laugh:
Heckler 5th
Senior member
LOL my mom drives a lexus and, yes, she's an awful driver.
amddude
Golden Member
I want to add something new to this thread... I notice whenever women are driving and reach a point where they are going to hit something, it's like their mind freezes and they just lock on the brakes and skid into something. It seems that fast-thinking self-preservation component does not kick in. I've only been in one fender bender, which was my fault, but caused basically no damage as it was about 4mph. My wife on the other hand has totaled a car.
I have avoided several accidents by speeding up and swerving rather than locking it up and skidding into another car.
I have avoided several accidents by speeding up and swerving rather than locking it up and skidding into another car.
I've actually noticed this, too. When things start going to hell, some people's one and only reaction is to stand up on the brakes and deathgrip the steering wheel.
When someone does something unexpected around my wife, she just automatically slams the brakes... even if she's doing 70mph on the freeway with a mile of traffic behind her. A larger portion of men, generally speaking, seem to take a split second - prior to reacting - to assess their options. It's just a biological difference between how men and women operate. It's not necessarily a personal fault.
For instance, when I had my Jeep Wrangler, my wife and I were turning off one icy road onto another. I hit a patch of black ice and went into a skid in mid-turn. Instead of slamming on my brakes and panicking, I managed to guide the Jeep out of the skid and I put it right between two signposts just off the road. No damage whatsoever. My wife even remarked how if she had been driving, she would have just closed her eyes, hit the brakes, and prayed for the best (which would have sent us sideways into one of said signposts).
I'm not saying this makes men safer drivers; that's far from the truth. There are a lot of dynamics in play when it comes to men vs. women drivers. I still stand by my point that women cause more accidents, but men cause more damage. This is why women pay less insurance (and I agree with the insurance companies... it's all about risk assessment).
It's a quality issue, not a quantity issue.
Day to day, any given woman is more likely to cause an accident than any given man... HOWEVER, when that man is the one to cause the accident, look out. The woman's accident is likely to be a minor fender bender, whereas the man's accident is likely to cause a 26 car pileup, 4 deaths, 14 permanent injuries, and 1 totaled guardrail.
My sister is one accident away from being uninsurable. She's had so many claims that she has to use Safe Auto, and if she gets into one more accident, they're kicking her to the curb. Note, however, that she's caused very little damage in her accidents and no one has ever been hurt. She's simply had a ton of them.
My wife has rear-ended two vehicles, knocked off my side-view mirror whilst backing out of our garage, crushed a deer's skull, backed into no less than 3 parked cars, and driven over a dead dog. Root cause of all incidents? Obliviousness and carelessness.
I've been in one accident. I honked at a guy as he was cutting me off on an on-ramp. He flipped me the bird. I flipped him the bird back. He slammed on his brakes as I rode up on his bumper. Final result? Two totaled trucks. Root cause? Unbridled, unchecked, pure male aggression.
MercenaryForHire
Lifer
Every so often, I get the desire to equip my tiny little Civic with a set of air horns that would make a locomotive jealous - just for situations like that. 😛
- M4H
Not to get off topic, but the aftermath was pretty humorous. He got out of his truck like nothing happened at all. He was all "oh man, are you okay... what a freak accident that was !" I, on the other hand, FLIPPED OUT. "WTF were you thinking you dumbfsck! First you cut me off, then you flip me off, then you slam on your brakes for no reason other than to be a douchebag!!!"
Yes, I was riding his ass, but he provoked the thing every step of the way. I know I shouldn't have responded, but I was LIVID. After hearing the details, the cop actually cited him for wreckless driving.
But still... had either one of us kept our cool, nothing would have gone wrong. Had either one of us been a woman, the rage never would have escalated.
By the way, this was about 10 years ago. I haven't tailgated since 😉 .
Svnla
Lifer
Funny, in my case, whiteys are the worse. A few years ago, one dude hit me from behind while I was at a stoplight. The fvcker didn't even have any insurance.
And don't let me start on female whiteys, especially the ones with huge SUVs and minivans.
No racism/sexism intended either 🙂
True story of a woman driver here...
Coworker of mine drives a little yellow Mini. Driving down the freeway, she sees brake lights, and something kinda floating on the breeze. It was some sort of billboard sign or something, and it wrapped itself AROUND HER CAR (she could only see out the back).
Her reaction: "What did the road look like? Straight, plenty of following distance..." so she took her foot off the gas and didn't hit the brake. It slipped off and she was fine.
The person behind her (another woman) saw the mini wrapped in a vinyl sign, and slammed her brakes on, causing 3 cars to pile up on the interstate 😀
Just proof that it goes both ways. My coworker is a great driver, who happens to also have her class A.
Coworker of mine drives a little yellow Mini. Driving down the freeway, she sees brake lights, and something kinda floating on the breeze. It was some sort of billboard sign or something, and it wrapped itself AROUND HER CAR (she could only see out the back).
Her reaction: "What did the road look like? Straight, plenty of following distance..." so she took her foot off the gas and didn't hit the brake. It slipped off and she was fine.
The person behind her (another woman) saw the mini wrapped in a vinyl sign, and slammed her brakes on, causing 3 cars to pile up on the interstate 😀
Just proof that it goes both ways. My coworker is a great driver, who happens to also have her class A.
Aikouka
Lifer
My brother must be part woman then 😱. He's hit 2 deer and 1 horse (yes, a horse), wrecked 1 car (horse accident), severely damaged 1 car's front-end. That was all within about 2 months. Before that, he's wrecked one car awhile ago, but to be a bit fair, a flat tire would've wrecked that old car :laugh:. Also, the severe front-end damage was mostly because of the township's negligence to address a very dangerous curve that happens to be just right by where we live. 45 degree-ish slope + 2 70+ degree curves and all shrouded in trees. We play a fun game when it snows called "How many cars will get stuck trying to go up the hill."
Fun game, 2 days ago we got 4 people I think?
Fun game, 2 days ago we got 4 people I think?
moshquerade
No Lifer
Yeh, I read that, too.
Like it's been said young males seem to be the cause of these types of serious accidents more times than not.
Gimme 2 fender benders for one of those accidents any day!
meltdown75
Lifer
Need poll option for Asian women on cellphones.
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