With the progress of the times, women have become more and more independent, and equality between men and women has become an established thinking in people's minds. But in reality, there are often some words that intentionally or unintentionally demean women. Like the glare of "female driver" that we often mention, when a female driver is in a car accident, people tend to focus the topic on the female driver.
So where does the public's prejudice against female drivers come from?
Let's start with a few examples. In 2021, a female driver driving a car was stopped at the entrance of the parking lot by a crossbar that was slow to rise, and got out of the car without hanging up the P gear to check, the result was that the car automatically slid forward, and the open door encountered obstacles and bounced back to knock the female driver unconscious.
In 2019, in Yongcheng, Henan Province, a 23-year-old female driver hit-and-run after driving her beloved Maserati to get close to 8 cars after drinking a small drink, and with the passion of 135 kilometers per hour, she rushed into a BMW car waiting for a red light at a traffic light intersection, which eventually led to 2 deaths and 4 serious injuries in the accident.
Poor technology, strange accidents, and disregard for laws and regulations are often the source of female drivers becoming derogatory terms, and the news media, in order to pursue eye-catching communication effects, are keen to amplify female drivers' mistakes in driving, as long as female drivers appear at the scene of traffic accidents, people habitually add guilt to women's heads.
In the "2022 Female User Car Purchase Demand and Car Habits Survey Report" released by Tencent Automobile, it can be learned that up to 68% of female users believe that the quality of driving skills has nothing to do with gender, and only 28% of women believe that women's driving skills are slightly inferior to men's overall. At the same time, more than half of female users are not disgusted by the title of "female driver", believing that it is just a normal title. But post-90s female users think that "female driver" is a derogatory term with discriminatory connotations. As their academic qualifications have increased, women have become more sensitive to the use of the term "female driver".
Women seem to have been treated unfairly when it comes to driving.
In fact, physiological differences have a great influence on the driving characteristics of different genders. Due to the difference in the structure of the cerebellum in men and women, the functional areas of the brain have different neural communication methods. In contrast, men have an innate advantage in the handling of mobility and spatial distance. Women, on the other hand, are superior to men in the abilities needed to drive, such as vision, hearing, and perception.
From the overall proportion of traffic accidents, men account for a higher proportion. The Beijing traffic management department once made a statistic and found that the number of deaths caused by male drivers was as high as 50 times that of female drivers! Many women also rely on their innate advantages, and the degree of delicacy in driving is much higher than that of men. Compared with male drivers, female drivers are also less drunk and speeding, and will be more compliant with driving regulations.
Friends who usually take buses or taxis are not difficult to find, the proportion of female drivers is not low, they also shuttle through the streets of the city, to ensure the safety of passengers to the greatest extent. There are even some female drivers whose skills are far above many male drivers. According to the British "Daily Mail" report, a Thai female driver will drive through a narrow alley less than 2 meters wide for 30 years, and there will never be any scratch marks on the body. How many old drivers can achieve such technology as hers?
The performance of female drivers on the racing track also proves that women are not inferior to men in driving skills.
Like Li Fanglei, a female racing driver of China's "Flying Jade Cat", she has vividly expressed her bold and meticulous qualities on the field, and has won 22 championships in her career, such as the National Automobile Rally Changchun Station Championship, the National Ice and Snow Short Track Automobile Rally Championship, and the China-Russia Automobile Championship.
Jin Rui, the post-80s women's racer, is The most famous beautiful female driver in China, since 2014, she has won the first place in auto events such as the Grassland Silk Road Drift Competition And the National Rally Championship, creating her own galloping life.
China's "strongest female driver" Li Jiannan is a skilled racing driver, in 2017 as the only female driver in the Chinese Formula (CFGP) race, her excellent driving skills and outstanding results have gradually made her a benchmark for domestic female racers.
In world-class racing, female drivers have also played their own world. I believe that anyone familiar with racing must have heard the name Katherine Legge, the British female driver who surpassed the track record of male driver Raikkonen in Formula Renault and rose to fame.
The author believes that in the event of any traffic accident involving female drivers, everyone should be more objective to understand the facts, rather than blindly blaming female drivers, and female drivers should not be regarded as derogatory terms. If women can use the advantages of gender to improve their driving level, they can also vigorously resist the derogatory "female driver". (Text/UVIS Auto Old Cannon)
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