Women polishing steering wheels with their noses...
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sueandpete said:
by the way is it just me or there some very rude and angry people are here!
no it's just you.
off. 
BTW sue&pete - could you change your username to sueandpete or sue, or pete - the Ampersand really screws with the quoting (polite request
) Edited by Davi on Wednesday 28th March 14:12
Davi said:
sueandpete said:
by the way is it just me or there some very rude and angry people are here!
no it's just you.
off. BTW sue&pete - could you change your username to sueandpete or sue, or pete - the Ampersand really screws with the quoting (polite request
) Edited by Davi on Wednesday 28th March 14:12
well spotted! that's what it was!
It certainly makes me laugh when I see women close to the steering wheel. Personally I think it's a confidence thing. I also believe they call it spacial awarness (sp) where men have a better spacial awareness (ie pararell (sp again lol) parking) than women. But on the other hand they are also more likley to get caught checking out a woman in the street than a woman will checking out a man 
If my dad has to use any of my cars he has to adjust the seat closer to the bloody wheel!!
If my dad has to use any of my cars he has to adjust the seat closer to the bloody wheel!!
Have browsed the several and interesting comments, which amusingly confirm my own observation in over 60 years of commuting and touring in the UK and in several other countries throughout the world. Without exception, women - not exclusively or rigorously - do TEND to drive with arms bent to an acute angle, i.e. less than 90 deg. My personal driving postion is either an angle of 90 or or a little greater.
Women, of average build, will be intrinsically closer to the wheel by default thus, ergo, the air bag too, because of their inherent anatomy: they have a bust line; men don’t - well, most men😇.
But, regardless of this it does not explain why - on the whole - women drive with their arms bent to an acute angle. Of the four adult women in my family only one - a daughter - drives “like a man” and is just 5’-4” tall and boasts a “fuller figure”. When “challenged” they simply take offence so I gave up trying decades ago. Maybe, reinforcing the airbag deployment risk with a video from the British Road Safety organisation might get them to re-exmine their driving position?
Women, of average build, will be intrinsically closer to the wheel by default thus, ergo, the air bag too, because of their inherent anatomy: they have a bust line; men don’t - well, most men😇.
But, regardless of this it does not explain why - on the whole - women drive with their arms bent to an acute angle. Of the four adult women in my family only one - a daughter - drives “like a man” and is just 5’-4” tall and boasts a “fuller figure”. When “challenged” they simply take offence so I gave up trying decades ago. Maybe, reinforcing the airbag deployment risk with a video from the British Road Safety organisation might get them to re-exmine their driving position?
dtmpower said:
Why do women sit so low in the car - jack the seat height up so you can see out of the windscreen !
Well, it's 15 years late, but my neighbour's rather short friend had a couple of cushions on the driver's seat of her top of the range Toyota. She insisted the seat wasn't height adjustable.I know the ladies in my family know only the controls they need to operate the car safely and aren't interested in whatever other minor controls and buttons may be present.
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