women, you so crazy wrote:
Did you post this from your iPhone while driving down the road? When you posted it, did you slow to a crawl in the middle of moving traffic while you typed your message, or did you maintain speed and swerve into the other lane while typing?
All good questions for sure, for one completely lacking a brain.
Your momma must be so proud.
Azaleas wrote:
In what world is "propensity to speed and drive aggressively" not bad driving?
NASCAR, F1, Indy...
drive safe wrote:Whoever you are, male or female, please just drive safe.
... drive safeLY.
Please, people, don't forget the -ly on your adverbs! It makes me irate!!!!!
A little logic wrote:
All good questions for sure, for one completely lacking a brain.
Your momma must be so proud.
He sure does have the details nailed down w/respect to driving while texting. It must be his inferior male brain that impairs his judgment so tremendously. You'd think he'd realize texting while driving was a bad idea after his first car wreck- but no, he has try it out a second time.
Men are NOT fast learners. What a poor pathetic dolt. If only medical science was capable of reversing the damage caused by testosterone-inebriated neurons.
A little logic wrote:
Ummm...pretty sure the topic of discussion is not who are better formula 1 race car drivers.
I love this: "that doesn't make women better drivers, just safer."
Do you even have a brain?
The argument was brought up that women are statistically better drivers. I disagreed with that statement on the basis that it is an incomplete argument. I agree that women are safer drivers statistically. However there is more to being a good driver than being safe.
I also probably know more about the subject than you. The risk differential between men and women drivers reduces drastically after the age of 25. Men actually become safer than women drivers in old age.
Ill try to find the statistics, but the fact behind the fact was that men are more likely to drive more. So while they have worse records, their crash/miles driven ratio is much lower
this is the study. from Syracuse U.
This would seem to be pretty damn important:
A 2004 study found almost the complete opposite, however. According to The Guardian, Scottish researchers said 94 percent of accidents causing death or bodily harm involved male drivers.
94%?????!!!
Come on, it's simple. A few psycho male drivers (and drunks) account for the deadly accidents, the rest of men are pretty much fine. There are more incompetent women, but they don't do the stupid stuff that gets you killed. Why is this hard to understand?
Maybe you all should read the article instead of just arguing about it.
The take home message I got: both old people and young people have difficulty making executive decisions while driving, leading to a higher rate of accidents from mistakenly pressing the wrong pedal.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Accidents in which drivers mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake tend to involve older female drivers in parking lots, a new government study has found.
One of the study's most striking and consistent findings was that nearly two-thirds of drivers who had such accidents were female. When looking at all crashes, the reverse is true — about 60 percent of drivers involved in crashes are male, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study noted.
Another finding: Gas pedal accidents tend to occur more frequently among drivers over age 76 and under age 20. The age disparity showed up in both an analysis of more than 2,400 gas pedal accidents in a North Carolina state crash database and an analysis of nearly 900 news reports of such crashes. In the state database, accidents were almost equally likely to involve drivers under 20 as over 76, but in news reports about 40 percent of accidents involved elderly drivers — four times as many as young drivers.
Still, drivers under 20 were the most likely age group after elderly drivers to be involved in gas pedal accidents reported by the media.
There may be several reasons for the frequency of such accidents in those age groups, but it's possible that the areas of the brain that deal with driving aren't as robust in teenage and elderly drivers, researchers said. The areas of the brain that support executive functioning — mental processes such as planning, attention and organizing — are the last to develop and don't reach full maturity until early adulthood. On the other end of the age spectrum, older drivers were more likely to perform poorly on tests of executive functioning.
A majority of gas pedal accidents occurred in parking lots, parking garages and driveways rather than on roadways — 57 percent in the North Carolina database and 77 percent in news reports, the study said.
A panel of driver rehabilitation specialists interviewed by researchers theorized that there may be as many instances of misapplying the gas pedal on roadways, but drivers might have more room to recover on the road than in parking lots, given the proximity of other vehicles and objects.
Gas pedal accidents gained notoriety in 2003 when an 86-year-old male driver mistakenly stepped on the gas pedal of his car instead of the brake and then panicked, plowing into an open-air market in Santa Monica, Calif. Ten people were killed and 63 injured.
The study was conducted by TransAnalytics LLC of Quakertown, Pa., and the Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina under contract for NHTSA. Researchers drew on several sources of information: other studies of gas pedal accidents; several databases, including a national crash causation survey and a North Carolina state crash database; news reports; case studies of specific accidents; and interviews with driver rehabilitation specialists.
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