At the moment when information is more and more frequently transmitted from the media, a lot of news that has occurred in recent years has made people have a fixed view and way of thinking about some special identity labels, such as our "female driver", the current people but all the female drivers who mention the road will automatically correspond to the label of poor driving skills, this stereotype is a disguised "stigma" for our female drivers.
However, from the statistics of some authoritative automobile agencies or relevant departments, women do have a higher proportion of traffic accidents and violations of the law, which is also a real data. But as the proportion of women in the group of car owners is getting higher and higher, the proportion of so-called "poor car skills" is actually shrinking. Take the female drivers we often encounter in daily ride-hailing trips, their skills and all aspects of the level are really not worse than male drivers.
We conducted a follow-up interview with female drivers of ride-hailing cars to see how they experience and perform in their work when they make a living from cars. Our female driver interviewed is already a mother of two children, with a car age of 8 years, and has been driving an online car for 4 years, serving a private car platform, driving a vehicle for Geely Emgrand EV.
In the Q&A about her most memorable passengers, she told us that she once took a female passenger who went to the hospital for a maternity examination, she told us that the female passenger was very close to the due date, and her movements were more restricted when she got on the bus, she directly sat in the co-pilot position when she got on the bus, and in the first half of the trip, there was no dialogue between the two in the first half, but after the half of the trip, it may be out of concern for women, the female driver took the initiative to ask the passengers about pregnancy and childbirth. The two chatted for a while before learning that the female passenger had been admitted to the hospital, and the due date was only in the last few days.
Although the company has regulations, the driver is not allowed to ask passengers about personal privacy, but the words have come to this point, the female driver still asked why the child's father was not accompanied, which is to know that the husband of the female passenger is also a full-time professional driver, and the operating platform company is very strict with the supervision of the private use of the bus, and the approval of the driver's leave is also more stringent, because her husband has taken many personal leaves this month because of her pregnancy's false labor pain, so the rest of the leave will be deducted from the wages. In addition, both parents are out of town, so they have to go to the hospital alone. Just before the end of the trip, the female passenger suddenly suffered from pain, the female driver judged according to her own experience, the duration of her pain and the time of the pain were like contraction pain before childbirth, so she immediately asked the traffic police near the intersection for help, and escorted the passenger to the hospital under the escort of the police car, and after accompanying her to the hospital and contacting her family, the female driver threw herself into her ordinary and simple driving work...
At the end of the interview, she also recalled that this was the first time she had dealt with the traffic police in addition to checking drunk driving, and asked us with a smile, "Do you think a female driver like me can do it?" ”
Regarding this interview, the female driver also mentioned a thing that we find more interesting and realistic: in the group of female drivers, everyone often discusses topics related to passengers, and as the only woman in a 15-person e-hailing driver group, she is the least picky about passengers, and many male drivers remember the bad habits of passengers with different passengers very clearly. In the discussion about female passengers, most male drivers said that most women who ride alone will choose to sit in the back seat and rarely choose the co-pilot, which is exactly the opposite of the experience of the female driver interviewed, in her driving experience, many female passengers are more willing to sit in a more comfortable co-pilot position.
In fact, from the experience of female drivers of netizen cars, it is not difficult to see that female drivers, as the weaker party in the driver group, have some advantages that male drivers do not have in their actual work and life, especially in terms of empathy ability, female drivers are often more able to stand in the position of passengers to look at some problems in the driver-passenger relationship.
The labeled title of "female driver" does bear a lot of things that should not be borne at the moment, especially in this era of national self-media, many self-media will amplify the image of "female drivers" in various traffic accidents and public events for the sake of traffic, thus creating the stereotype of "female drivers = poor driving skills" in the public. But just like the female driver we interviewed today, more and more female drivers are tearing off such labels with practical actions, and we should also look at every person who makes a living from cars fairly.