I also think that often both men and women are better drivers depending on the character and circumstances you are dealing with. True women are known for their sense of detail and this does make them drive more carefully at times. However taking into consideration other factors like susceptibility to road rage and following the rules of the road, I think that regarding a man or a woman, men are often better drivers.
Women will watch traffic carefully and act preventively as far as I am concerned but so do men. It is difficult to say that women follow the rules of road more than men do. I also think that when it comes to being under the influence of alcohol both men and women drive under the influence and this makes them both responsible. I do think that the average woman drinker will drink less than the average drinking guy making him more dangerous for drunk driving. before driving Perhaps someone does have accurate enough statistics that they can say men are more apt to be in an accident behind a wheel than women because of the alcohol in their blood.
I do think that women can be as easily distracted from the road as they can focus and such was the case in a recent family drive out of the city, where a female member of the family always wavered in her distance from a following family car even though she insisted she kept the same distance. The issue in question was a family trip where one car had to follow another to get to the same road exit on the way to a family occasion.
Men I think can be better navigators and historically there have been more men than women doing that. Navigating means in this case knowing where a turn off is before getting there. Women on the other hand, I think go more by instinct and then probably will recall a location just as a man would. I think that instinct is not as accurate as having the talent to look at a man and know directions before getting to the final destination. Here I am not saying that all women are instinctive on the road and lack a certain rationality but I have come across more women who were indecisive behind the wheel then men when it came to finding a turn off or knowing which highway to take.
Women tend to find their location by remembering something visual about what their destination was, especially if they have to return there. Men on the other hand tend to think more analytically by remembering road turn-offs and location crossroads. This phenomenon has been studied psychologically. The way of finding a final location does not make either the man or woman a better driver but if the visuals around a location are going to change as happens when there are new buildings erected in the region perhaps the better method of getting to a final place is by remembering a road name and not what the buildings around looked like. This would make males better drivers because they would hesitate less behind the wheel and be more confident about finding a location they have to drive to.
