Women Drivers

I was thinking about trying to conduct a new study. I have a particularly good vantage point to observe people on a daily basis. I hope to gather data about drivers, specifically female drivers. I am not truing to be a traitor to my sex but I cant help but notice the obvious.

Every day I see women driving huge vehicles into things. The fact of the matter is women have less over all spatial skill than men. This is a proven trend in psychology and biology and is being demonstrated everyday out my window. But that does not mean that they should be poor drivers. Anyone can learn to be a good driver in any size vehicle. What I suspect is the problem might be is that they are not trying prefect their driving by learning the size and capabilities of their specific vehicle.

I have to say that I do feel a little guilty about ganging up on my sisters but if they would just spend some time to learn the size of their vehicles then I might not be all over them like this. Everyday I watch those Suburbans and Expeditions squeeze crookedly into parking spaces, graze their side view mirrors in the bank drive thru and make six point, parallel parking attempts only to give up when they get embarrassed that they have been blocking traffic for seven minutes.

I do not admit to being a perfect driver or that all women should be. I don’t drive a vehicles the size of a medium pacaderm. I drive a little Saturn and like it very much. I don’t think I could drive a big car never mind what could be a transport for six linebackers.

Furthermore, what excuse can you use for a "sport utility vehicle" that has never seen any obstacle bigger than a pot whole. Do Soccer moms need to be able to scale a thirty degree dirt hill while they take their kids to dance lessons?

To be completely fair women are not only bad drivers. Why, just last week I watched a DHL driver crunch the top of his trick open like a sardine can on one of those clearance bars and just speed off embarrassed. But more often than not men's traffic offences are limited to speeding and occasionally cutting me off. Where as women’s mistakes seem to be lack of awareness either of the size or location of their vehicles.

I am going to keep a log of the sex type of vehicle and type of mistake I see drivers make. I think this could be a fun experiment. I hope to disprove my beliefs about women in SUVs. But I have a suspicion that it will be confirmed.