I didn't know Saudi women could not drive

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Maybe their archaic sexist laws have some merit. I mean, you could argue that their fears that society will break down as the result of women being allowed to drive (we could only hope) are unfounded, but at least we would have a nice controlled experiment on whether or not having women behind the wheel increases or decreases oveall highway safety.

We simply look at their highway safety stats before they change the law, then compare them to after the law changes and the age old arguement about women drivers should be finally put to rest, right?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/wo...html?th&emc=th

It is fun to see the bit of info on the sitcom where a woman disguises herself as a man to take a job as a hack. (Kind of a Saudi version of Tootsie). Nice to know it isn't just our culture that is obsessed with junk entertainment.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

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the age old arguement about women drivers should be finally put to rest, right?

that argument has already been THOROUGHLY explored by insurance companies. Women are a bit safer drivers than men.

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But that is with men and women on the road together. I'm betting roads are safer when used by men only then when used by men and women together. Too bad we don't also have a country where only women are allowed to drive. Then we could really get to the bottom of it.

Safest to most dangerous:

1 - Men only
2 - Men and women
3 - Women only (because then NOBODY will be paying attention to the road)

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

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But that is with men and women on the road together. I'm betting roads are safer when used by men only then when used by men and women together. Too bad we don't also have a country where only women are allowed to drive. Then we could really get to the bottom of it.

Safest to most dangerous:

1 - Men only
2 - Men and women
3 - Women only (because then NOBODY will be paying attention to the road)

I'd bet it would be the other way around. With equal experience, I think women are much, much safer drivers than men.

"For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

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Women may be safer according to statistics. That's simply because women generally don't push their cars as much as men do.

Women are still crap drivers though. Fact.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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the age old arguement about women drivers should be finally put to rest, right?

that argument has already been THOROUGHLY explored by insurance companies. Women are a bit safer drivers than men.

You have not been to WI in your lifetime huh?

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Hey you get no statistics about who causes an accident, and yet drives away unscathed leaving carnage behind.

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Man -- all this shit-stirring, and no one's biting

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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grrrrrrrrrrrrr

hehehehe

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Woman are poor drivers because they have poor depth perception.

Why do they have such poor depth perception?

Because all their adult lives they've been told this
_________________________________ is nine inches.

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

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I was once teaching my Mrs to drive. We were perhaps going along at 50mph and I asked her why she was sitting so close to the wheel, arms bent at 90 degrees, face almost touching the windscreen.

"To aim the car along the lane!"

Yeek.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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You are gonna get for that!

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the age old arguement about women drivers should be finally put to rest, right?

that argument has already been THOROUGHLY explored by insurance companies. Women are a bit safer drivers than men.

Not Asian or Indian women

7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer

[vortexring 0]

Man, the verbal battles we had in that car!

We both agreed a professional instructor would be the way forward, for the sake of our and the cars health.

We hadn't been long married, and despite English not being her natural language, the variety of the swearwords was astounding.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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Man -- all this shit-stirring, and no one's biting

shit was never good bait.