Posted by spoonman Friday 1 August, 2008 11:42 PM
Can blokes stand being in the car when their significant other is driving? A lot of blokes apparently hate it!
One of my favourite shows on TV is Top Gear, the irreverent motoring show produced in the UK.
So when SBS announced they were doing a local version of Top Gear I was pretty happy about it. With a bit of luck it will be even more irreverent than the Poms can manage.
And if the TV commercial for the Australian Top Gear magazine is anything to go by, it'll be a hoot.
But this week the mag released some details of a driver survey which claimed that a huge majority (85%) of blokes don't like to be a passenger in a vehicle being driven by their female partner.
Half of the 3,000 respondents said they like to point out serious 'flaws' in their wives and girlfriends driving skills, but most blokes can't handle being similarly criticised by their women.
The survey also concluded that most blokes think women are pretty ordinary drivers - to say the least.
But the stats reveal a somewhat different picture.
Blokes get more traffic infringement fines, crash more often and die on the road at a greater rate than women.
Most men who called the show this week claimed there was a massive "derr" factor there. Men drive longer distances more often than women, so you'd expect that kind of slant. Fair enough.
But you'd have to argue that men like to have control when in a moving vehicle.
I know I do, irrespective of who else is driving.
Does that make us blokes 'control freaks'?
Or is it more a 'style' issue, based on the notion that men are more aggressive on the road than women and when they drive sedately, we pick on them?
Over to you......
