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Study: Women better drivers than men

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Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: yosuke188
That simply is not true, and I refuse to believe otherwise.
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Check this site out: http://hope.hss.cmu.edu/

This is Carnelgie Mellon TrafficSTATS (STAtistic on Travel Safety)

Introduction
TrafficSTATS (STAtistics on Travel Safety) is a joint venture between Carnegie Mellon University and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (AAAFTS). The TrafficSTATS website provides users with an interactive tool to query information about multiple dimensions of traffic-safety risks.
Calculations are made using information from two widely-used national databases, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). Combining information from these two sources provides access to travel -risk calculations that go far beyond what can be found elsewhere (either online or in print). Users can explore the travel risks for millions of different combinations of transportation modes, demographic variables, and a host of other parameters. Users can also query selected information from the FARS and NHTS databases.



Proceed to the application and generate a report by clicking on Gender. After analyzing the data presented, you will conclude that clearly, women driver are safer driver but the question is:

Does it make them better driver?

I would tend to say YES unless somebody can prove me wrong.


Edit: The OP's article is based on data from the site linked in this post.
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You want proof?
Here: http://www.disastercenter.com/traffic/Age.html
Men have a higher fatality rate than women, but the INJURY rate is LESS in EVERY age group except 74+
I don't think those numbers take into account distance traveled either.
Does THAT help change your mind at all? Women get injured more, but die less. So are they safer drivers? Chances are if yes, only marginally.
 
Yup,

I think if you took out DUI and 16-25 year old males, you'd see a different picture.

The title is truly misleading - should be - "males more likely to die behind the wheel." Which is not surprising.
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
You want proof?
Here: http://www.disastercenter.com/traffic/Age.html
Men have a higher fatality rate than women, but the INJURY rate is LESS in EVERY age group except 74+
I don't think those numbers take into account distance traveled either.
Does THAT help change your mind at all? Women get injured more, but die less. So are they safer drivers? Chances are if yes, only marginally.
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that site doesn't say who was driving, if i'm reading it right
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
that doesn't say that women are better drivers, it says that men (particularly young men) take more retarded risks.

and that's what we've been saying.

men are better drivers, but drive recklessly. women are worse drivers, but only drive negligently.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. "Retarded risks" is the key. Men just tend to do that more often than women and that of course leads to more accidents but when it comes to skill, I think men are better.
 
Most people of both genders are decent drivers. But only with women do you get the ridiculously bad ones (running into stationary objects). Men have the ridiculously stupid ones (street racing, DUI, etc.)
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: yosuke188
That simply is not true, and I refuse to believe otherwise.
Click to expand...

Check this site out: http://hope.hss.cmu.edu/

This is Carnelgie Mellon TrafficSTATS (STAtistic on Travel Safety)

Introduction
TrafficSTATS (STAtistics on Travel Safety) is a joint venture between Carnegie Mellon University and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (AAAFTS). The TrafficSTATS website provides users with an interactive tool to query information about multiple dimensions of traffic-safety risks.
Calculations are made using information from two widely-used national databases, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). Combining information from these two sources provides access to travel -risk calculations that go far beyond what can be found elsewhere (either online or in print). Users can explore the travel risks for millions of different combinations of transportation modes, demographic variables, and a host of other parameters. Users can also query selected information from the FARS and NHTS databases.



Proceed to the application and generate a report by clicking on Gender. After analyzing the data presented, you will conclude that clearly, women driver are safer driver but the question is:

Does it make them better driver?

I would tend to say YES unless somebody can prove me wrong.


Edit: The OP's article is based on data from the site linked in this post.
Click to expand...
You want proof?
Here: http://www.disastercenter.com/traffic/Age.html
Men have a higher fatality rate than women, but the INJURY rate is LESS in EVERY age group except 74+
I don't think those numbers take into account distance traveled either.
Does THAT help change your mind at all? Women get injured more, but die less. So are they safer drivers? Chances are if yes, only marginally.
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Male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women, based on miles driven. Getting home alive more often equal safer in my book.
 
Originally posted by: aswedc
Most people of both genders are decent drivers. But only with women do you get the ridiculously bad ones (running into stationary objects). Men have the ridiculously stupid ones (street racing, DUI, etc.)
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Did you pull this statistic out of your pooper?
 
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