Who are Safer Drivers: Men or Women?
Driving used to be a masculine word because people usually associate driving, with men.We usually stereotype women as people who should not get on behind the wheels because it is a man’s job. For a long time, issues between genders have been hovering above our heads. And neither a man nor a woman will happily admit that the opposite sex is the better driver. Men will always take pride in themselves as being better at parking and reading maps and women will always argue that they are safer drivers. Women drivers are usually objects of jokes and curses because people think that women drivers, because they’re women, are prone to car accidents. But the truth is that all drivers, may it be a man or a woman, are not totally safe from car accidents. And little do people know that major car accidents usually happen to driving men.
According to social scientists and traffic experts, male drivers around the world get into worse car crashes and that the male’s tendency for aggression and risk taking, which is due to testosterone, is to blame. Men tend to act as if they are the king of the road and they’d rather race with other cars and drivers in order to go first in the lane than to bear in mind that they should be driving safely. Moreover, men are more likely to be driving in accidents involving pedestrians.
From the results of the survey conducted by the Automobile Association, “Men drive faster and break the law more often than their female counterparts, and are more likely to be killed.” However the report also showed that women drivers are twice as likely to have an accident at a junction as a man. But this factor alone would not determine whether men are safer drivers than women.For insurance companies, women are safer drivers compared to men because women are less costly to insure than men. It’s true that both men and women get into driving accidents but women’s accidents are less bloody compared to men. Women tend to clobber fence posts and rear bumpers while men often hit other cars, other people and unanimated objects head-on and at higher speeds.
For experts, men are more likely to drink and take drugs while driving, men are more likely not to wear seatbelts and men are more likely to go over-speeding. Men are considered daredevils in the roads because there are frequent circumstances that they’d rather choose to go through smaller gaps just to go across oncoming traffic.. Although women are more emotional than men, they do not possess the “drive for power” which is usually present in men. They also do not drive as much on dangerous rural roads or at night as men do.
