{"id":2599,"date":"2020-05-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:06:48","slug":"a-british-study-proves-women-are-better-drivers-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/2020\/05\/22\/a-british-study-proves-women-are-better-drivers-than-men\/","title":{"rendered":"A British Study Proves Women Are Better Drivers Than Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.1&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;19px||23px|||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.3.2&#8243; global_module=&#8221;2377&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.3.2&#8243;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Golden_Pacific_Bank.jpg&#8221; url=&#8221;https:\/\/goldenpacificbank.com&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.1&#8243; border_width_all=&#8221;1px&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.1&#8243; min_height=&#8221;114px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;17px||2px|||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.1&#8243;][et_pb_post_title title=&#8221;off&#8221; author=&#8221;off&#8221; categories=&#8221;off&#8221; comments=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.2&#8243; meta_font=&#8221;|700|on||||||&#8221; meta_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; meta_text_color=&#8221;#ff0000&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221;][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243; min_height=&#8221;75px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">A British Study Proves Women Are Better Drivers Than Men<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243; header_2_font=&#8221;Georgia|300|||||||&#8221; header_2_font_size=&#8221;21px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-5px||0px||false|false&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Men get together and release a statement: \u201cOh, yeah?!\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.3&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.3&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Author&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.1&#8243; header_4_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_6_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_6_font_size=&#8221;13px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||2px|||&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h6>By Ed Goldman<\/h6>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.3.2&#8243; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|auto||179px||&#8221; module_alignment_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; module_alignment_phone=&#8221;&#8221; module_alignment_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.1&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='et-dropcap'>I<\/span>\u2019m very glad I\u2019m not a retro comedian: the New York Times just reported that a British study shows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/27\/well\/live\/car-accidents-deaths-men-women.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">women are better drivers than men<\/a>. The news would have killed at least 10 or 15 jokes in my standup.<\/p>\n<p>What next?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That women are NOT always late getting ready for a date?<\/li>\n<li>That when women have lunch with other members of their sex the eating takes 90 minutes but figuring out what everyone owes on the check DOESN\u2019T take another 35?<\/li>\n<li>That they CAN parallel park?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code admin_label=&#8221;TV Online Ad &#8211; Facemasks&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243; global_module=&#8221;2603&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221;]<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/shareasale.com\/r.cfm?b=1540304&#038;u=1383997&#038;m=28718&#038;urllink=&#038;afftrack=goldman\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.shareasale.com\/image\/28718\/facemasksbanner.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TV Store Online\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.shareasale.com\/image\/28718\/facemasksbanner.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TV Store Online\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.shareasale.com\/image\/28718\/facemasksbanner.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TV Store Online\" \/><\/noscript><\/noscript><\/a>[\/et_pb_code][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>This news ruins one of my favorite black-and-white Popeye cartoons from the golden years of The Fleischer Studio. Popeye is teaching his girlfriend, Olive Oyl, to drive. She turns down a city street, ignoring the one-way sign, and we see Popeye react in horror to something. He tells her she\u2019s going the wrong way. \u201cNo, I\u2019m not,\u201d she says, pointing in front of her in a self-satisfied way,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTHEY are.\u201d And now we see from their viewpoint that trucks, a bus, taxis, passenger cars and a train are barreling toward them (and us).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Well, goodbye to all that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026(C)ompared with women,\u201d the Times reported, \u201cmale drivers of cars and vans had twice the rate of fatal accidents per mile driven. Male truck drivers had about four times the rate of female truckers and men driving motorcycles almost 12 times the rate of female motorcyclists.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>One grace note: \u201cFor bus drivers and bicycle riders, there was little difference between the sexes.\u201d In saying that, I\u2019m sure the writer didn\u2019t mean to imply that as a general rule there\u2019s little difference between the sexes. Sometimes, as we\u2019ve just learned, a stand-alone sentence has a tendency to mislead.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Aldred is the principal author of the study, identified by the Times as \u201ca reader at the University of Westminster in London.\u201d That\u2019s her title: \u201ca reader.\u201d Not even \u201cthe reader.\u201d I don\u2019t know anyone who\u2019d have assumed a researcher wasn\u2019t a reader\u2014but then, I\u2019m not British. This could be an example of one of their little jokes that never translate well, just as they insist on mangling the pronunciation of everything French, as though they\u2019re still mad about how the Anglo-French war (1778-1783) turned out, with France becoming our allies in the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Adsense&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.3.2&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221;]<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- gs_horizontal_new --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8489921453224987\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5069548950\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>I reference the Brit\u2019s tendency to hold grudges for 242 years because what wasn\u2019t mentioned in reporting the outcomes was if the drivers\u2014whether of trucks, buses, motorcycles or go-carts\u2014had to drive on the left side of the road, as the law requires in Great Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If so, I think some amplification should have been included in the executive study\u00a0accompanying the report, if there even was one. If not, allow me:<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNote to readers of Injury Prevention, \u2018the magazine about preventing injuries\u00ae\u2019:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study of 14,425 road fatalities from 2005 to 2015, each involving more than one vehicle, should have made clear that the male drivers who came off as so lame were British. As such they grew up thinking they were supposed to drive on the left side of the road, using a steering wheel situated on the right of the dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Adsense&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.3.2&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221;]<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- gs_horizontal_new --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8489921453224987\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5069548950\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think that\u2019s barmy\u2014oh sorry, you Americans prefer \u2018crazy\u2019\u2014we call our trucks \u2018lorries,\u2019 the front of our cars \u2018bonnets,\u2019 our buses \u2018coaches\u2019 and Boris Johnson our \u2018prime minister.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point is that nothing makes much sense here. If one of your American lawyers or elected officials were to show up at an official proceeding wearing a lavishly curly, powdered and obvious white wig, he\u2019d be tossed out on his \u2018bum\u2019 (unless he could prove he&#8217;s the reincarnation of your absolutely hilarious comedian Rip Taylor, who made our own Benny Hill\u2019s wit seem like that of\u00a0\u00a0Oscar Wilde).<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243;]\u201cSo please don\u2019t take the finding of this exhaustive, decade-long study too seriously. Male American drivers remain the best of the bunch. By the way, I\u2019m dictating this as Doug, my Uber driver in Sacramento, California, drives us across my front lawn because, as he explains it, \u2018the sidewalk seems too crowded to remain on.\u2019\u201d <span class=\"endingG\"> <\/span>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code admin_label=&#8221;TV Online Ad &#8211; Facemasks&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243; global_module=&#8221;2603&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221;]<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/shareasale.com\/r.cfm?b=1540304&#038;u=1383997&#038;m=28718&#038;urllink=&#038;afftrack=goldman\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.shareasale.com\/image\/28718\/facemasksbanner.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TV Store Online\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.shareasale.com\/image\/28718\/facemasksbanner.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TV Store Online\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.shareasale.com\/image\/28718\/facemasksbanner.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TV Store Online\" \/><\/noscript><\/noscript><\/a>[\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.3.2&#8243; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|auto||0px|false|false&#8221; module_alignment_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; module_alignment_phone=&#8221;&#8221; module_alignment_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; border_color_top=&#8221;#E02B20&#8243; global_module=&#8221;1122&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.6&#8243;][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;AuthorBioBox&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.2.2&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Georgia||on||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#444&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;14px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.7em&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/about-ed\/\">Ed Goldman&#8217;s<\/a> column appears almost every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A former daily columnist for the Sacramento Business Journal, as well as monthly columnist for Sacramento Magazine and Comstock\u2019s Business Magazine, he\u2019s the author of five books, two plays and one musical (so far).<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m very glad I\u2019m not a retro comedian: the New York Times just reported that a British study shows women are better drivers than men. 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