{"id":2342,"date":"2012-10-15T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T06:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:41:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:41:48","slug":"misogynists-among-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/misogynists-among-motorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Misogynists Among Motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Private Fleet are in the midst of undertaking a Consumer Attitudes Survey.
\n It is early days yet, but\u00a0we’ve\u00a0already uncovered some fascinating facts and opinions.<\/p>\n

Misogynists Among Motorists<\/strong><\/p>\n

One question asked respondents a fairly open opinion on their likes and dislikes. Nearly 80 percent of our respondents so far are male (so ladies, we want your entries too), but of these, nearly twenty percent listed female motorists as their major dislike!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Of particular dislike is the young female P plater.
\n All comments are given anonymously yet there is a clear trend evident with comments such as
\n \u201c Young female drivers seem to drive too fast\u201d<\/em>
\n Or
\n \u201cYoung women speed to excess, with scant regard for others\u201d<\/em>
\n Or
\n \u201cYoung female drivers, often on P plates tend to be the worst (most aggressive, risk taking, impatient).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

But young females are not the only target of female criticism. Curiously more than one respondent had noted \u2018Asian women driving Volvos\u201d <\/em>as their pet hate.<\/p>\n

So does this mean that the Australian motorist is not just a women hater but racist, too? Well, we hope not as it\u2019s early days, and we need a significant sample to confirm these early suspicions, but we\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

So what other major concerns have been noted to date?<\/p>\n

Keeping Left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A regular criticism is of those drivers who habitually ignore the \u2018Keep Left\u2019 signs, hogging the right hand lanes or even the centre lanes of motorways when the inner lanes are vacant, particularly when driving at less than the legal limit.
\n A typical comment is:-
\n \u201cDrivers in Australia are a disgrace, including the trucking industry. In Europe and UK the driving is orderly, trucks STAY in the inside lane except when overtaking, then return to the inside lane and you never see them on the outside lane. Cars only overtake on the outside (never on the inside) and do not hog the outside lane. In fact if they see a car approaching in the rear view mirror they move over straight away \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

Tailgating<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another frequent comment and criticism is the way cars keep too close to the car in front of them, particularly when being driven by young people.<\/p>\n

\u201c I hate tailgaters\u201d<\/em> is a common sentiment among respondents.<\/p>\n

Other dishonourable mentions go to excess speed, too many speed restrictions\/road signs, impatient drivers, elderly drivers and more.
\n As we said, it\u2019s early days for the survey, which covers other factors, too. So if you haven\u2019t yet completed the survey, why don\u2019t you do so now?<\/p>\n

It will only take a minute or two (average completion time is 1m 20 secs), and it will be a valuable contribution towards understanding driver sentiments and motivations. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/debitovaya-karta.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Private Fleet are in the midst of undertaking a Consumer Attitudes Survey. It is early days yet, but\u00a0we’ve\u00a0already uncovered some fascinating facts and opinions. Misogynists Among Motorists One question asked respondents a fairly open opinion on their likes and dislikes. Nearly 80 percent of our respondents so far are male (so ladies, we want your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12243,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/12243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}