Trust your partner to drive?

It seems not many of you do

By PH Staff / Friday, 6 January 2006 / Loading comments

It seems PHers enjoy their driving so much that they just won't hand the keys over to their partners.

With 93 per cent of our readership made up of men fanatical about cars perhaps it should come as little surprise that so few of us want to share the driving.

A recent survey amongst our readership showed that when out with our partners we simply don't want to hand over the keys. 71 per cent will always take the wheel themselves with 23 per cent prepared to share it (unwillingly we suspect). Only six per cent hand their keys to their partner and that's probably just on the way home from the pub...

Many of us don't seem to trust our partners' driving though which might also be a factor. 30 per cent of us aren't confident in our partners' abilities to drive safely! Over 40 per cent of those surveyed had taken the trouble to obtain advanced training themselves however.

Sales of satellite navigation systems shot through the roof at Christmas and that may be because of more distrust in navigation abilities. Nearly a quarter of those who answered our survey reckoned their partner could only be trusted to navigate very simple or local routes!

Despite this, arguing in the car isn't as prevalent as you might expect. Just ten per cent of respondants reckon they argue in the car. Ninety per cent probably just sulk or hold on with clenched teeth...