Ok, as an ex-racing driver myself, 1st i have to tell u that in
pro-circuit racing, if u even needed to focus on controlling the
car, u're way out of yr league. Car control should have been
drilled into your subconscious reaction, where small and constant
corrections to the controls should be made without your conscious
decisions, like balancing while riding a bicycle, or balancing on a
tightrope. If on the race-tracks a driver need to focus on
controlling the car, then he/she probably should go back and train
some more.
Next, in motorsport, there are a large number of parameters for any
racing driver to think about during a race. How hard to push, tyre
wear, fuel load and fuel consumption, engine's condition, tactics
etc. Do i sit behind this competitior and wait for the pitstops? Do
I overtake? Is he/she costing me too much time or will the reduced
fuel consumption from my being stuck behind help me gain a few more
low fuel laps before my stops? Things like these. Woe is the driver
who cannot "multi-task" in a mental sense, on the race-track. In
this regard, logically, women should be even better than men on
tracks. On what few occasion that men have ALLOWED women to
compete, and given them the opportunity to do so in competitive
machinery, women have done well. And in the case of focus, of which
the required focus for racing is 'mental sharpness', women have
proved to be equally capable, if not more, of sustaining a sharp
mental edge lap after lap.
So whichever way u look at it, your argument is flawed, because the
truth is, driving itself is a very 'multi-tasking' chore, on track
or on road. If your argument is that men drive better because of
their ability to concentrate on one thing only, then that is really
men's handicap in driving, and your argument is no longer
sustainable.
As for knowing anyone who drives as well as my mom, no. My dad is
accident free for about as long as well but I don't deny sometimes
I get scared riding with him. Sometimes it can be a bit close for
comfort. When I'm doing normal driving, I prefer not to take
chances. Everyone has a luck account and I prefer to take chances
on the track than off it. Don't empty out your luck account too
fast u know? U never know when u might need it.
And about an open discussion, are YOU prepared to throw away the
old social assumption that men are better drivers and accept that
women are better? The root cause of women not being good drivers is
social as well u know. If society was drilled into thinking its a
'gal thing' to drive, like shopping and painting their nails are,
u're going to see a lot more girls start bothering to pay attention
to driving, and they're going to be much better at it than men are.
The fact that many women can't be bothered to drive properly is
because society sees driving as a 'guy thing'. And before u say
this is bull, how many of u guys can be bothered to put in the
effort into doing something which is a 'girl thing', like painting
yr nails? Its this social biasednesses that makes people feel they
don't need to put effort into doing something thats "not meant for
their gender". Gender itself doesn't decide driving ability. Social
prejudices do.
