Women and driving

I just realised how long I’ve not blogged.

Been travelling around a lot lately for work and also bogged down with projects at the office. Feels great to have just a moment to sit down to just put in a post or two.

Travelling often, I realise something while I’m on the road.

2/10 bad/crazy irritating drivers on the road are men. So, you do the math and find out how many are women.

Yes, I stand by my words. Especially when you’re in a rush, you tend to notice these sort of things.

Now, I didn’t say that ALL women are bad at driving. Those that are real good behind the wheels are almost as rare as the Malaysian Government awarding Datuk-ship to a good Samaritan. There’s barely 1% of them IN THIS WORLD.

So far, the things I’ve noticed from women drivers are:-

1. Signalling and changing lanes immediately. Just because you’ve signalled, it doesn’t mean you can immediately change lanes and other drivers will jam their brakes and yield.
2. Driving below the speed limit on the fast lane. Don’t you know the function of the last lane?
3. Not showing appreciation when people give way, even if it was a forced situation. Is lifting a hand up to say “thanks” that hard?
4. Slow in giving way to oncoming speeding vehicles, on the last lane on the highway.

Sometimes, I don’t really know whether women drivers are really clueless to driving rules, regulations and road ethics or are they just plain ignorant.

Therefore, I have some advice for you women/girls/females.

1. When you want to change lanes, signal, look at the oncoming traffic, and only change lanes when situation REALLY allows.
2. If you do not want to go over the speed limit, stay in the centre lane and only go into the fast lane to overtake.
3. When other drivers give way, whether willingly or by force, just raise your hand and give a “thank you” sign.
4. If you’re gonna be driving at not-higher-than-80km/h, please, PRETTY PLEASE do NOT buy a Honda VTEC/ Mercedes/ BMW/ any luxury, high performance vehicle for that matter. First of, it’s a waste of money and you can get a Myvi for the same purpose, with better fuel efficiency. Secondly, hazardous to security?

It is well documented that women do not have the skills to manoeuvre at speeds over 110km/h on a busy road/highway. So, please stay in the centre lane and try not to use the fast lane unless for overtaking.

And PLEASE, check your rear mirrors for oncoming cars. When other vehicles flash their lights asking you to give way, do so quickly and not ponder on it for a whole 10 minutes! Don’t make us resort to tailgating you. We don’t intend to do it on purpose, if you’d have only given way.

Now, just so to state, I’m not a sexist. These advise goes out to some of you no-skill, slow poke, stupid-excuse-for-a-male drivers as well. Stay in the slow lane!

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On an entirely different note, my 1.3 Auto Myvi beat a 3.0 Mercedes SLK280 on skills and handling.

That’s a David vs Goliath competition.

Oh happy day~~