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Originally Posted by RussianNinja
Personally I do not find OP completely sexist. From what I understand he is going off of general facts and the way we, men, view women around the world.
It is well known that women are not the best drivers, they tend to drive slow and safe or fast and dumb. No, I am not talking about all women, Danica Patrick is an exception :p
Then he also was probably thinking that she is not in her young age and so if she turns all the assists off by accident, she might screw up, even though it would be difficult.
As to support why men are better drivers than women, studies are not really that good as there are considerably more men drivers than women.
As well to answer concern, mother would do just fine in that car, but you said she got Class-C so no more concern.
OP is not sexist, it's just the environment he has grown up made him seem that way.
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I think that men and women share the road equally, at least with regards to the United States. I'm not sure what you're facts are for suggesting that men drive more than women? It also seems that you have a subjective view of "better" driving which 'safe' doesn't fall into. Using your same assumptive view, you could argue that women spend more time with their children, and therefore are more likely to be with their children while driving, and therefore (in general) would be overall more 'cautious' drivers, but that doesn't change the fact that that is a sexist statement and not all truth in the world we're living in today.
In my personal experience, there are both men and women who drive well (we'll call them people), and men and women who are bad drivers (let's also call them people, or stupid people if you prefer).
If you're wanting to support a proclamation with facts and/or statistics with regards to men and women drivers - well, there is a reason that men have higher insurance premiums, and doing a brief search on this forum for people that have been involved in an accident state that more often than not "some guy" or "someone" did this or that to their car, and not "some woman" - but instead of a more ambiguous pronoun (someone, this person, etc) when referring to a man, when referring to a woman you will almost always see "a woman" or "some chick" attached to it, and so it tends to stick out to us when we read those, even if the opposite is true when you look at the big picture.
In addition, while you'll always see the feminine pronouns attached to the subject when referring to a woman, you'll often see adjectives when referring to a man that suggest that that individual doesn't fall into the typical category of male driver ("an older guy", "some kid that just got his license", "a drunk driver"), as if they're some sort of outlier - whereas you tend to just see "woman" with regards to the opposite sex given the same situations.
Anyway, that post was longer than I intended it to be - please keep this forum awesome, and refrain from sexist, racist, or religious commentary - especially if you're going to leave it devoid of investigative fact.
I think that OP (originally, anyway) was mostly concerned with his mom getting harassed just like any of us driving around in a sport car can be subjected to - such as people attempting to incite a race, tailgating, etc., but I think that the cause of those fears tends to be due to the sort of car that you're driving, and not necessarily who is behind the wheel driving it.