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AND They Know When to Ask for Directions ...
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Quick - was the worst driver on your commute this morning - the idiot tailgating, swerving or driving with knees instead of hands so as to operate a cellphone - male or female?
Survey says men are more dangerous drivers - and die in car crashes far more often - than women.
Scientific, provable fact. Before emailing this post to someone and yelling, "SEEEE???" or charging off to argue about it with your husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, son or daughter, you might want to play with the data engine that drew this conclusion ...
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The STATS system developed by Carnegie Mellon University and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety lets you run your own customized reports.
Maybe you'll learn some other interesting statistical quirks about the thousands of other motorists - good and bad - who rub bumpers with you at rush hour every day. For instance - it's safer to be a 4-year-old in a car seat than an 18-year-old boy driving on his own: According to Fischbeck, visitors to the website can see that five times more people die in cars than on motorcycles annually, but there are 30 times more deaths per mile on motorcycles than in passenger cars-which means motorcycles are 30 times riskier.
"With Traffic STATS, anyone can compare travel fatality risks across different age groups, regions of the country and other dimensions," Fischbeck said.
Some other interesting findings:
* An 18-year-old male and an 80-year-old female have the same driving risks.
* The safest passenger is a 4-year-old strapped in a car seat during morning rush hour.
* Male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women.
Of course, the report doesn't exactly address this, which says that a shortage of testosterone in the womb makes women worse than men at reading maps and parking.
But, er, who's the best driver in your household?
(Warning - the STATS engine's display frame doesn't much like Firefox, but it will spit out reports in HTML, PDF and a host of other formats ...)
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Monday, January 22, 2007 - 10:19 AM
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