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Men may drive the car better, but women cooperate with traffic better. My wife doesn't know the difference between the radiator and the lug wrench. Doesn't that make me a better driver? No. So let's have some fun with this.

Aren't men better drivers because driving a car is a dominant act and men are dominant? Of course not. It's better if men drive only on straight roads lined with water-filled crash barrels and absolutely no traffic. Then men can really show their stuff. "Hold my beer and watch this," men shout in prelude to demonstrating their driving superiority. Hey, how many women do you know who do that, huh?

Cars understand men better than women. Cars feel more comfortable with a testosterone-overloaded driver at the wheel. Cars are dangerous and men are dangerous and the twain shall ever be. It takes a real man to drive a car. To push it to its limits, to redline the tachometer in rush-hour traffic to get home after work. To chirp those wide-profile Pirellis during a lane change and slip ever so gracefully into that eye-of-the-needle opening that seems like the door to freedom and gains an important two seconds in a twenty-minute drive home. To explode from that traffic light with hands straight-armed in the ten-two position on the wheel and the pedal to the metal. God, what a rush. It's even better if he's wearing Armani sunglasses at midnight and black driving gloves with little holes over the knuckles to release the fire.

Come on . . . who drives the car on a date? Men. Who drives the car to Burger King with Mom in the passenger seat and the kids fighting in the back? Who drives to church on Sunday? Men do the driving because women don't like to. They don't feel comfortable behind the wheel of a two-ton destroyer with four-piston rear disk brakes and performance-enhancing drugs. Women don't care about the important stuff like power-to-weight ratios and changing out the computer chip that suppresses maximum top speed. Women don't want to think about optimal tire pressures and G-forces in the turns. What do they care about torque-converters and four-wheel traction?

You only have to look at insurance company rates for men and women. Men clearly win that argument hands down. I mean, after all, it's a free-market, supply-and-demand situation. Men are charged more because they're willing to pay more for the privilege. Women don't like to drive as much so insurance companies lower rates for them to get them

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