The female of the species is much more speedy than the male

Girls are not only the fairer sex, but also the faster sex – at least when they are behind the wheel of a rental auto.

A nationwide study of driving habits in rental automobiles has found that female customers exceed the speed limit 17.5% more often than men.

If that weren’t enough to destroy your gender stereotype, ladies are not only faster, they’re also safer – according to the statistics, anyway: males are 5 instances a lot more likely to trigger damage to a rental vehicle than female motorists.

Dented pride

In the study carried out by In-Car Cleverness, a organization that supplies telematics technology, 84% of the cars returned with dents, scratches and punctures had been rented by male motorists.

Honestly, males drivers! So careless!

Telematics, in case you’re asking yourself, is a massive deal in the insurance sector. It’s generally the tiny black box that utilizes satellite communications to record when, where and how you drive so that insurers can far more accurately set premiums, rewarding the protected and penalizing the reckless.

In-Car Cleverness monitored a lot more than 10,000 rental vehicles over a 6-month period to compile the stats, so it is surely thorough, even if it does disappoint some of the much more macho of the male population.

Gender equality?

It is not the only survey that casts doubt on the superiority of the male motorist. Claims information collected by insurers clearly shows that women make fewer and much less expensive claims then men.

Insurers are not, however, allowed to take gender into account when setting premiums.

The findings of the study are also backed up by statistics from the Department for Transport. In 2013, male drivers accounted for a lot more than 40,000 road casualties, compared with less than 35,000 for females drivers.

But let’s not rush to dismiss any link amongst speed and security. Males who returned autos with damage exceeded the speed limit 82 times on typical throughout the rental period. Female drivers who broken automobiles also sped a lot more typically, averaging 90 instances of speeding.

Harm report

Paul O’Dowd of In-Automobile Cleverness says: “While the quantity of vehicles broken by the opposite sexes varies, the behaviours that outcome in harm are regularly related.

“The statistics show a clear correlation in between automobile harm and situations of speeding, harsh braking and acceleration.”

What do you consider?

Attitudes to girls drivers are nevertheless, in a lot of instances, redolent of rubbish comedians playing operating men’s clubs in the 1970s. But the cold tough stats that insurance companies create (but can’t use when they set their prices!) demonstrate that girls are safer drivers.

So what do you feel? Are women really greater drivers than men? Or are men technically better drivers who are unwitting victims of their own testosterone-fuelled impulses?

Go on, get it off your chest in the box below…

The female of the species is much more speedy than the male