chaircover: LOL Bluetooth I have been driving long before sensors came along and that is one of the reasons why I dont bother looking at the camera when reversing & I relay on my judgment.

Like I said there are a number of crazy female drivers but it isn't as bad as people make out. There are some exceptionally good ones too. Living in the UK with snow, heaps of women safetly get from A to B in those conditions. Simply said, We are not as bad as people try to make out.

The purpose of this thread was to break the myth and I was expecting proper figures from insurance companies, police accident figures etc not one off You tube clips.

chaircover: I'm fed up of hearing this all the time. Sometimes I am in the car with my husband and someone in front of him does something silly and he automatically says "women drivers" and then we go past the car and see that it is a man driving it

I think that us women are safer drivers, we dont race, we are careful and we dont get into ego scraps with other drivers (something I have seen men do time after time), we think before we act and so on.

Using myself as an example, I have only had 2 accidents in 10 years; one was when a lorry hit me whilst I was stationary at the side of the road (so not my fault) and the other when I choose not to believe my reverse sensors and reversed into a tree. OK that was my fault

Ok I have seen some lady drivers do some silly things but it is not as bad as people paint it.

I dont work for an insurance company, but it will be interesting to see the percentage of accidents caused by women against accidents caused by men.

kpolli:

Lie from the pit of hell. . . It's women that even started that

Ikenna351: Women drivers? Hm!

I have taught about 10 persons how to drive & most were women. At a point, I started thinking that only God would be patient enough to teach women how to drive. Am serious. Every moment i had spent on the passengers seat when they take over the steering, I would be having cycle of nightmares till i would take over. Sometimes i wonder where some men that teach their wives how to drive borrow all those patience & calmness to go through all that high blood pressure. The worst part is that while they would be raising your blood pressure with their wonderful driving, they would still be asking you "How are my doing?". I remembered when mom told me what happened during her own time of learning how to drive. Mistakenly, dad decided to be the one to teach her to drive with his BRAND NEW car. A mistake indeed! The first few days they went out for practise, they would come back nagging at each others. At a point, mom realised that she wasnt making any progress & they would always come back unhappy with each other. The 4th day or so, dad realised his mistake & sent her to driving school, for peace sake. I was teaching a female neighbor with her car how to drive then, & mom was telling me the story that I must be special then to be doing this without the woman complaining, instead singing praises to her how good & patient i was while i was teaching her driving. But mom didnt realise that dad wasnt different. Maybe, i would have done worse than dad to that lady if it was my car. I could remember the day one of my younger sister asked me to teach her how to drive with dad's car i was using then. I didnt even utter a word to her in reply. Make she come carry me!

Dont get me wrong, am not saying all women are slow learners in driving. Some men are worst than most women in learning how to drive.

Whenever am driving in the city, I dont like women driving behind me. Once i notice that, I would quickly steer into the other lane. Make dem carry their wahala dey go! Most women, when they are reversing, they will only apply brake when they hear noise behind or when the car suddenly stopped on its own. God have mercy on you if your car was the wage or the source of noise. A woman will drive & hit you behind, when you have calculated, smartly applied brake & stopped your car before a traffic light. When you walk up to her car & asked her "why me?", she would reply "But why did you brake like that?". As if it was wrong for you to know how to apply brake. Before you know it, she would pull her phone & start calling her husband or boyfriend. Expecting you to do what? Call your wife or girfriend(s) too?

Notwithstanding, there are very few that are very good in driving, very few. Some are even rough riders! But we are looking at 10 - 15%.

Yes, some men are like that too. You will see some men sitting so close to the steering wheel, holding the steering wheel so firm, like women, as if they driving accross graveyard! How do you expect to drive properly when you are so nervous, not relaxed? Even some tutors in some driving schools drive the same way. What do you expect them to produce then? Expert drivers?

Ikenna.

purefella: Why women are worst drivers is that most of them can't stay focused for a longer time without doing other silly things like talking , looking around if they can see fresh fish to buy while driving and once they see anything they go for it forgetting they are on the road , they just hit the break with their frog little legs , they are also good at doing a lot other funny stuffs and mostly study any female drivers the perfect time for her to make a mistake while driving is when she passed beside the market and she sees fresh tomatoes or whenever she passed beside where they are selling clothes like ankara , lace that goes for older women ,if it's our ladies let them drive pass in-front of big boutique that has a lot female wears hanged outside

Okija_juju: Driving!!

Its a skill. One in which most women dont seem to be gifted in. Above and beyond moving a car, a driver has to be sharp, alert, decisive and confident in their ability behind the wheel.

The first problem with most female drivers is that they are afraid. Its almost as if they feel that when once they let go of the steering wheels for a second, the car would go out of control so they grip the steering like they are holding on for dear life. what this causes is that they lose fluidity in their manuevers. Example, a man who wants to make a U-Turn on a busy road would simply watch, wait for his chance and would with one hand turn the steering like a racecar driver and within 15secs, he is done. But a woman would come wait for her chance and start making this turn with two hands on the steering doing the hand-over-hand manuever, looking down at her gearstick every two seconds, her chest to the steering wheel, her neck stretched, her eyes trying to see her bumper in front of the car. all this could take up to two minutes in an extremely tight situation. In a womans bid to be careful, she ends up becoming a nuisance on the road. This is especially worse when it is in rush hour and everyone is in a hurry.
All bad drivers are not women, but most women are bad drivers!

chineloSA: I have obseved that Nigerian drivers are the worst. Hate me if you want to, no wahala

Male or Female.

They do not know the signs let alone observe and adhere to the rules.

They do not know the rules so they do anyhow.

The problem is not about being able to propel the car its about observing the signs on the road and respecting the rules of the road.

As alot of you have mentioned that you taught alot of your female folks, you forget to focus on the road signs, rules etc. when you teaching. Home driving school is not good @ all

yungboss: Just the other day, a little lady was driving something of a Nissan Armada, that massive box! U needed to see how she was straining to see the nose of the bonnet of her car, hugging the steering with her seat pulled forward. I thot, why on earth would she choose to drive such a big vehicle,couldnt she have gone for a much smaller car, i bet u, she wasnt going to go home without a quarrel with some male drivers on the road that day. Women,learn to drive cars compatible with ur stature hmm.