"You're?a?virgin?who?can't?drive!"

That's a classic line from the 1995 movie Leader of the Pack.

It's not the first time that "women" have been associated with "poor driving" in movies and television, and it certainly won't be the last. But why? Why do we have this prejudice that female drivers are necessarily inferior to male drivers? Is this even true?

China now produces 28 million cars a year, and the total number of cars in China will grow as time goes on, with the country expected to overtake the United States as the world's top automotive nation by the end of 2020.

The increase in the number of cars has greatly facilitated our travel. However, because many people do not follow traffic rules, drunken driving, speeding, poor driving standards and other reasons, China's annual car accident deaths more than 200,000 people.?

Because of the increasing number of car accidents and the tragic injuries and deaths, more and more people are concerned about driving safety. Many of these people then often flirt with female drivers, saying that women can't drive. So is this really true? Is it true that women driving is more dangerous and has a higher accident rate than men?

On August 6, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Traffic Crime Characteristics and Trends of Judicial Big Data Thematic Report" (hereinafter referred to as "Report"). The Report shows that nearly 95% of the defendants in traffic crime cases are male, and from 2016 to 2019, the average 10,000-person incidence rate for male drivers was 2.20, which is 8.8 times higher than that of female drivers. More than 90 percent of defendants in traffic offense cases nationwide were sentenced to prison terms.

From the characteristics of traffic crime cases, 6:00 a.m. and 18:00 p.m. to 19:00 p.m. is the peak time for the crime, and the traffic crime cases are frequent in the fall and winter. According to the type of vehicle, small microbus accounted for up to 49.26%; trucks accounted for 32.04%; motorcycles accounted for 13.88%; electric vehicles accounted for 4.61%; school buses accounted for 0.11%; large and medium-sized buses accounted for 0.10%.

So it seems, then, that if you go by the big numbers, female drivers are not synonymous with being unsafe.

So why do we often take female drivers around?

1. Girls are prone to making cheap mistakes, like hitting the brake as if it were the gas. Some female drivers wear muffin shoes, high-heeled shoes to drive, easy to accidents, some female drivers driving also make-up, some female drivers drive more carefully, slower, which affects the normal driving of other vehicles, in other vehicles urged, female drivers may be panicked, easy to cause traffic accidents.?

2, prejudice. Take the old saying to give two examples: such as a woman without talent is virtue, only women and small people are difficult to raise also. Many people think that men are bold, good technology, and will repair the car, better at driving, so the early cars are mainly men in the car, until now the car is popular, women driving only gradually more, so most people subconsciously think that women do not know how to drive. But the fact is that men drive with many more vices than women, such as drunk driving, smoking, speeding, running red lights, etc., and more serious car accidents occur.

3. Certain media outlets have contributed to the trend, favoring reports of accidents involving female drivers. Dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is news, the media so write, the main reason is to write female drivers have a car accident, can get more people's attention. Usually we see on the highway most of the male drivers, car accidents are also male drivers, if it is not any major car accidents, the media basically do not report, and women out of a car accident, more likely to cause onlookers, such as scratching, tailgating and so on are reported out.?

But there are also some surveys that show that the probability of a female driver being involved in an accident is, at times, slightly higher under certain circumstances.

A survey and analysis of local police department records by staff from the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute found.

The actual percentage of this combination of female-driver-female-driver accidents was 50 percent higher than they expected. And the percentage of male driver-male driver accidents was 20 percent lower than they had estimated.

That is to say. Female drivers and female drivers may be more likely to rub off on each other, but male drivers and male drivers - same sex!

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