Should women drivers be Banned ?
 

With the upsurge in accidents on the roads and the greater percentage of them being put down to women drivers ,dithering, and hesitating for too long ,is it time to Ban them ,or Give them a harder Driving test ? Such a move would ease traffic congestion after all !!:thumbsup:

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:You got a death wish archiveuk !!

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No. :tongueout

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I would have thought the increase of accidents was down to young (18-25) male drivers showing off to their mates and causing crashes by driving too fast and not experienced enough.. or the increase of accidents caused by male drivers 1) pulling out of junctions too fast and not looking 2) driving so close up the car in front's backside you can read the small print on the tax disc and 3) male drivers full stop - I always thought that insurance companies rate women drivers as better - because we do take more care and are slightly more cautious.. oh well I'm a women so what do I know eh?

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I think it would make much more sense to ban the young male drivers and put their DL age up to 21, even though by that age most have still got the urge to race around town .

I have seen more near misses by male drivers and young drivers than most women. Admittedly some women drivers do tend to dither but then we can say that about the older generation of over careful drivers which IMO are a hazard on the roads too..

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my other half is a damn good driver, think its more the young " Richard Heads" that should be looked at.:rolleyes:

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I have been driving for 41 years and had ONE accident that was my fault. Take yesterday as an example, I was driving to Tesco when a MALE idiot overtook me in a lane that was meant for a right turn,and the road was only wide enough for 1 car going the same way as me, causing nme to have to jerk over to the left and apply my brakes rather hard. So if you want to see idiot drivers come over to Manchester where the majority of them are "BOYS" who like to show off in their toys. Going about in my car i often come across male "drivers" who like to think they are better drivers than me, it is amazing to see the expression on their faces when they rev their engines at traffic lights thinking "only a woman driver" and i go past them and they cannot understand how i did it, simple, i am a better driver than a lot of these "boys with toys" also i have a large engined car so that helps.

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Well if you want make it difficult for the ladies, put fewer of them on the road, in fact, ban them all together, then what excuse have you got?

It all depends on circumstance, and although I hate to admit it, most women that drive me only go as far as insane not death, death seems to be a man thing.
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Well I don't drive now, and am driven around by women, my other have, who's a very good driver, my two daughters, who are both very good drivers and my Granddaughter who, although has not been driving that long is very good, I can only think that tarting a hread like this someone has a death wish, well you've certainly got more bottle than me.:eek::eek::eek::eek:

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Hey, why stop at banning women from the road .... let's go the whole hog and take the vote away from them, kick them out of parliament and put them where they belong: barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen:hidewall::D:D

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Ah well, might as well put me down now then:

Barefoot ... got rid of the hard skin ages ago.
Pregnant .... age should be a clue.
Kitchen ... lousy cook.

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Don't worry ... there are dishes to do, floors to mop, garbage to take out, ;):D

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When im in the car and some git cuts us up or pulls out....8 out of 10 times ya can bet ya life its a bloody woman!!

BUT, most men are the same too, especially taxi drivers (they think they own the sodin rd), also white van drivers!!, im sure they do it just to look good with their stupid workmates with em!........One day i myself will be done for road rage, as i have a short temper on the road, probably due to the fact that these morons are putting my kids life at risk!......:angry:

So my answer to the thread is NO women should not be banned, as men/women are as bad as each other...but i think women are worse!

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Yes of course they should and along with it all men should be neutered starting with the one who suggested the scheme in the first place :P

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Naw... give em shoes.:alright:

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I read somewhere once that men more likely to have speed accidents, women more likely to have spacial accidents.

In other words, men don't know how fast they're going and women have no concept of size! ;)

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The biggest problem I have with women drivers is that they seem to have no comprehension of the speed or distance of oncoming traffic, I do a lot of driving, and when a car pulls out in fornt of me, and then doesnt accelerate very quickly, it is usually a woman, ladies, the highway code says that you should not pull into traffic in a way that unduly slows down or forces another vehicle to stop, so stoppit!

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Sorta' true, but most women have smaller 'prangs' because they undertake smaller journeys, usually with their children in the back and are distracted by moanings and groanings. Fact.

Concept of size !! LOL .. no comment.

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On a more or less serious note: I don't know if it is the same over there, but in Ontario, insurance companies charge different rates for different drivers. These are worked out according to the incidence of accidents among certain classes of drivers .... the highest rates are charged for male drivers under the age of 25. I pay about $500.00 a year for full coverage (collision, fire, theft etc) .... a new, young, male driver would pay about thirty five hundred dollars for basic insurance: the minimum to get you on the road. So, according to the insurance companies, young male drivers are the worst.

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Well, you should have had the anticipation that the one behind the slow moving traffic will be the first to overtake .. bet you are one of those that close up tight behind them just to annoy. !

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I'm not going to go into all the silly name-calling - men are fast drivers, women are slow drivers, A goes too fast, B dithers - it's ridiculous. I've been driving for over 40 years and I am a good driver (a lousy passenger but a good driver). I don't speed and I don't hesitate and, most importantly, I drive correctly on motorways.

I know a lot of women drivers, some are very good and some are pretty dreadful. I know a lot of men drivers and exactly the same applies. My son is an HGV driver so, yes, he's a pretty good driver. Both my daughters drive well (and, believe me, as the world's worst passenger I'd soon tell you if they didn't). One of my friends is not very good and I won't let her drive me, my son-in-law drives his car as if he was riding his motor-bike so - ditto.

Driving ability isn't gender dependant. You either have it or you don't.

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All drivers over there are crazy; they all drive on the wrong side of the road ... and they get the terms all mixed up .... c'mon guys: don't you know that you walk on the sidewalk, and drive on the pavement?:alright::hidewall:

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there are good and bad in both sexes, I'd rather they just took all crap drivers off teh road irrespective of male or female.

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It usually happens when there is nothing else behind me kate, and that is what annoys, why dont they wait until i have passed, no I dont drive on thier tailgate, its illegal, hehe. ;)

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I agree with that. Drivers get into far too many bad habits and, sometimes, they prove fatal. There should be much more rigorous screening of who is allowed on our roads and regular tests would help to sort the wheat from the chaff.

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I hate to go against my gender here but all the women drivers i've known in my life have been terrible!
My mum hated driving,my mum in law drives at about 30 miles an hour wherever she is and gets lost constantly,my aunty anne nearly killed us once on a motorway and my friends mum nearly drove into the central reservation on a motorway when she was flipping someone off!
All the male drivers i know are fine.
After saying that though i don't think women should be banned i think i have been really unlucky!
After my bad breeding you will be pleased to know i have no plans to drive ever!!:D

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That is unusual for a man ... cannot remember once ever being tailgated by a woman, and have never done it myself. Always a bloke, who has no idea of braking speeds, and the fact that I am a mere woman with no driving experience :rolleyes: who could brake, hesitate, dither at any moment .. :eek:

LOL at Loz.

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loz i have 2 sister in laws just as bad pmsl, but thats just sods law, most of the women i know are good drivers, don't let family track records put ya off.;)

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"Brake, hesitate, dither": That's women for you, multi-tasking when they should be driving.;)

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Oh i haven't mentioned the half of it!!
There is also my aunty susan who never stops at road junctions,just speeds right across them,my other friends mum who started to drive us into town then stopped after a minute because she thought she was still too drunk to drive and going back to my mum in law she was backing up to drive off a street onto bolton avenue in huncoat and ended up in the middle of the fields and got stuck!!
My mum had the worst luck ever when she drove,she was once hit by somebody escaping from jail and also nearly killed us overtaking about three cars on the road by the old mother redcap and don't get me started on my sister and best friend!!
I think i'm safer off the roads you haven't heard about my attempts at driving yet!!

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Actually the two worst drivers that I know ARE women! But I don't necessarily think it's BECAUSE they're women - I think it's because they don't drive very often or very far so everytime they get into a car again they have to re-learn how to do it.

I'm forever having to tell hubby that even if we're late to get somewhere he doesn't have to kill us to get there on time!

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better 20 minutes late in this world than 20 years early for teh next!

I've always been a fan of regular tests and we have discussed them in depth on here before. At teh end of teh day you take charge of a lethal weapn, why not make you regularly prove you know what you're doing!

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To be honest, how many drivers could say, hand on heart that they would pass the driving test with flying colours if they had to retake it. When you orignally pass the test you don't learn to drive you learn to pass a test, its only when you've passed that you start learning to drive;)

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It would help a great deal if someone explained to drivers of both sexes that an inverted triangle at a road junction is in fact a give way sign.Seems every time I get to a mini roundabout only me knows.:hidewall:

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Yes but come on, if you look out and see someone sqeezing in to park behind your pride and joy, don't you just, without hesitating, hope it's not a woman driver ?:do-one:




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Only a male could describe a metal box with 4 rubber tyres and a combustion engine as his "pride and joy". ;) It's a car, right? It may be your "status symbol"; it may have cost you an arm and a leg but it's, basically, just a means of getting from A to B.


And, no, most of the women I know can park very well. Then again, I know several chaps who are, shall we say, a bit rubbish in that department. :D

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The "pride and joy" is a guy thing;) .... and you are right, I know a lot of men who park by ear. A bus gets you from A to B .... your car usually, unless you hit something and need a hook:eek:, gets you from A to A.:D

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Slightly off topic, did anyone see Top Gear with the Nissan that was speed limited, but using GPS knew when you went to a track and took the limits off ? I think thats a fantastic idea, and will stop speeding on motorways. Max speed 80.

As for this debate, I think most of the impatient drivers are men, most of those who seem "afraid" of driving are women. I agree with a modified test every 5 years. I`ve been driving 20ish years, and I wouldnt pass the "official" driving test now...for a start my hands aren`t always at 10 to 2, only use handbrake when parked etc. However a quick 30 minute drive round the block to prove you aren`t totally incompetent would do.

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It is a statistical fact that young male drivers are more likely to have or cause an accident.

However I have noticed these last few years that many young women are getting as aggressive as young men. Many a time I’ve been tempted to stop and ask the young woman following me if she wanted to see what was in my boot.

And to answer the original question – NO!

The five years and re-test idea may on the face of it seem like a good idea but the present testing system can barely cope with new drivers trying to pass their test so there would be no chance of introducing a five year re-test.

The real answer, as someone has already pointed out, is to teach people to drive properly and safely and not just to pass the test.

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There is no doubt that driver education is important ... as are graduated licences ... and experience. But there are some people who are just plain bad drivers. They don't react; they over react; they panic; they yak on cell phones, they crank the tunes; and they ignore warnings: for example, if you are driving in this area after dark, and you see a sign with an outline of a deer on it and the words: "Warning, severe night danger", it is appropriate to be on the look out for Bambi .... and Slow Down, put on the high beams, look for their eyes, and don't be surprised if a deer comes leaping out of the trees. And in winter driving conditions, if you start to slide around, Don't Brake hard, or you will lose control of your vehicle.

And I don't think that it is a gender thing that makes one driver better than another.

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Only a woman could describe a Jaguar S type, a Porsche 911 or lets say an Audi R8 for example as "just a means of getting from A to B." ....

I see nobody has discussed the resulting enviormental benefits to my original question... less cars on the road so fuel would by market forces become cheaper, more kids walking to school so less obesity ! And women having to walk more than 25 yards to the supermarket so maybe they will start to regain some of thier long lost figures.

There are further benefits but these might appear a little sexist so i'll refrain .

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A little bloody sexist, if ever I want to come up with a plan to get up the female populations collective noses, i'll drop you a PM archiveuk:D

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Hang on! I consider my car as just a means of getting from “A” to “B”.

In fact you will find that most women will give their car a name and talk about it as if it were a real person.

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Personally, have never considered a car just for getting from 'A >>B', well, yes, but only chose one for the needs I had at the time, etc. Have done the Jaguar S ... but really don't need this type of car anymore, as retired (well, at the moment) will probably look to de-size shortly.

Never, ever named a car in my life or decorated it with stuffed toys and swinging dice ... is there to serve a focused purpose.

Must admit, rather surprised by most of our gentlemen's comments on this thread ... thought you may have agreed with Archiveuk but, no, you haven't .. thanks fellas ... x

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I don't know if it's just women. There have been times I have given my car a name (tho' I can't mention the kinds of names I have given it) and talked about it, or more usually screamed at it as if it were a real person. This usually happens on frigid winter mornings when it refuses to crank over.;)

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My last car was called "shed" (and beleive me, it was!!)

And I personally (and many others for that matter) think that I am a good driver, not very hesitant but its impatient drivers (usually men) that get up my nose, obviously they are willing to risk there life say at a roundabout but i wait for what i feel is a comfortable opening and not have to make the oncoming vehicle brake at me pulling out on them. The worst driver that I know of is my ex husband, he even scares me and normally im a very good passenger. I have people that will back me up on my choice of worst driver ever lol am very suprised that he has not been in a serious accident recently

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There are inverted triangles at mini roundabouts??? I havnt seen one, the real rule at a mini roundabout is give way to traffic from the right, seems half of drivers dont know and hesitate, and that isnt just women! Even though many women dont know thier left from thier right! Go on lads, ask your partner which is left, they either raise both hands or work it out! :rolleyes:

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To determine if someone knows their left hand from their right I ask them which hand do they wipe their bum with.

Invariably one hand will be raised to which I reply, “Ugh! I use paper!”

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Shouldn't that be "give way to traffic from the left":confused: .... Oh, I forgot, you guys drive on the wrong side of the road:eek:;)

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Left and right confusion is just as much a Man thing.

My late husband had a problem with left -v- right. I used to tell him, "You write with your right hand", but it didn't help. If I was driving and he was giving directions I would say, "My side of the car or yours?" It was the only way to avoid complete detours of many, many miles.

:D

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And it seems you have left your legacy in Spain.....They are Blooby Crackers. Especially the women. :p

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Know a person in Spain that failed her driving test because she did not know.:tongueout Ceda el paso to you

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Well yes I think they should be stoned to death up the Coppice quary.. but they should be screened.. I mean the good lookin ones should be taken back to t'Broadway pub for futher analysis..chuck the ugly ones off t'hill!

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Broadway is no more Mancie. you will have to find somewhere else just as upmarket for your analysis:p

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Sorry, slight wander but Broadway pub is no more??

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No it is shut

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Ooooh, never knew that, was in a couple of months back but dont venture out much these days :D

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LMAO @ The Broadway. Can tell how classy your birds are mancie lol

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Well I once named a MG Sports car I had ENA, thats because the reg was ENA 107:p

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No Eric it is you lot who drive on the wrong side of the road.

This all stemmed from the Roman times when the legionnaires would march on the left side of the road so that their sword hand (the right) was closest to anyone marching towards them.

That sort of pre-dates the emergence of Canada and the states.

The Yanks opted to travel on the right as a protest against the British pre independence. They did the same with the English language with the spelling of certain words. The Yanks were in effect cocking a snook at the British way.

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Oh! Don’t get me started on women as passengers navigating. In fact this doesn’t apply just to women but to most men as well.

If they can get the left and right, right the instruction is usually “turn left/right” but no indication where to turn left/right and is more often than not just as you are passing the junction. Or you often get just “turn here”. Where? Which way?

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If you note some of the old western films showing stage coaches, the drivers are always sat on the proper side of the coach. Its just the sepo's
couldn't tell left from right when they started making cars, so cocked everything up and as usual expected every body else to conform to their way of doing things.
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