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It's not easy to match men's and women's driving styles; they're rather different.
If we consider the age range between 18 and 50 years for both sexes, men are faster and tend to have more accidents just for this reason, forcing in the overtakes, in the curves and in the crossroads. Men, too frequently, drive fast just to show how "machos" they are and they consider their own car (frequently, a sport-car) as part of their virility, just trying to impress women.

They tend to be reckless, but they are generally more skillful in the movements in a narrow space for parking and maneuvering.
Moreover, men seem to be more vulnerable to sleep attacks during driving maybe because they tend to force their resistance to get their destination and not to lose time.

Instead, women tend to go slower and this is confirmed by statistics, but they are more uncertain in parking and maneuvers; in these clumsy attempts, they are more likely to damage their cars with little bumps and scratches because they don't like to turn well their head and body to see well aside and afterward, for example, and they have more hesitations in inserting gears.

Moreover, women are less informed and competent about cars, starting from the mechanical features of their own cars and about their maintenance; you know, it's not fine for a woman wearing her new trendy dress to dirty her hands and, what is worse, all the rest, while repairing or trimming something in the car or changing a wheel. This is work for men, they think!

Not by chance, all (and I just say all!) the mechanics that repair our cars and motorbikes are men, like also car dealers!
At this point, a "very difficult quiz": when a man is driving his wife's or partner's car and this has a wheel puncture, which of them will change the wheel?
After 30 seconds to think , the answer is clear: the man, of course, while his wife or partner corrects her make-up, comfortably sitting down inside her car.

This "passion" for cars is mainly male and, in the average, men talk much more among them about cars than women, although, sometimes, this can be boring.....

So, for what regards security, women are better but, about driving ability, men are better, when they're prudent, of course. So, the score is 1-1 and, not by chance, women are quite different from men.

Over 50, the differences between sexes tend to disappear and everybody tend to be slower and weaker in their reflexes, maybe, due to their increased physical problems and both are more and more at risk for sleep attacks that can be fatal even though we are driving slowly.

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