Women polishing steering wheels with their noses...
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Someone else must have noticed this. Why do they sit so close and in such small cars?
With steering wheels and seats adjustable in a multitude of directions you would need to have a physical abnormality to need to sit so close.
Admittedly there will be some who do, this is not about them, but why do I see so many driving schools teaching a driving position which offers sod all control over steering and a look of abject terror?
Is it due to sloping bonnets?
Why do men manage the ten to two hands with arms bent at the elbow to give a comfortable yet controlled steering position? Are so many women too feeble to reach the steering wheel?
And while I'm at it, every time I leave my house I have to wait for a learner to finish a reverse around/across the corner (sometimes from nearside to off side kerb!). They stop, blocking the road, and expect me (and everyone else) to file past them on the off side with no view to the right or what may be approaching. It's not a quiet street anymore and four times a day you're likely to meet the world's fastest Royal Mail van driven by a rabid loon who reckons he could teach that cheeky upstart Lewis Hamilton a thing or two.
Parking just around the corner on Saturday a learner nearly side swiped the Mazda too. Only the accompanying passenger (not a driving school car) grabbing the wheel saved the side of my shiny motor.
Okay so general rant about leaner type stuff. But ooooooooh!
It really grinds my gears
With steering wheels and seats adjustable in a multitude of directions you would need to have a physical abnormality to need to sit so close.
Admittedly there will be some who do, this is not about them, but why do I see so many driving schools teaching a driving position which offers sod all control over steering and a look of abject terror?
Is it due to sloping bonnets?
Why do men manage the ten to two hands with arms bent at the elbow to give a comfortable yet controlled steering position? Are so many women too feeble to reach the steering wheel?
And while I'm at it, every time I leave my house I have to wait for a learner to finish a reverse around/across the corner (sometimes from nearside to off side kerb!). They stop, blocking the road, and expect me (and everyone else) to file past them on the off side with no view to the right or what may be approaching. It's not a quiet street anymore and four times a day you're likely to meet the world's fastest Royal Mail van driven by a rabid loon who reckons he could teach that cheeky upstart Lewis Hamilton a thing or two.
Parking just around the corner on Saturday a learner nearly side swiped the Mazda too. Only the accompanying passenger (not a driving school car) grabbing the wheel saved the side of my shiny motor.
Okay so general rant about leaner type stuff. But ooooooooh!
It really grinds my gears
Edited by Six Fiend on Monday 26th March 16:29
In any well designed car, it's a question of seat and wheel adjustment. From observation of other drivers, I would estimate that no more than 10% knwo how to do this properly. The women may be too low and too close, but plenty of blokes seem to think that straight arms make for a good driving position or one hand the wrong side of 12 o'clock with the elbow out towards the driver's window.
Zod said:
... one hand the wrong side of 12 o'clock with the elbow out towards the driver's window.
Hey! Don't disrespect the "gangsta lean", you never know when someone packing heat might start shooting while you're cruising the mean streets of, er, Byfleet.
Not to be confused with the other defensive driving position, in which the aim is to ensure that the only thing visible above the doorline of the car is a baseball cap, preferably white. "It's like sitting in me bathtub, innit."
I have a sister-in-law who sits too low and too close to the steering wheel. I pointed out that it was dangerous as the closer her head is to the A-pillar the more that A-pillar blocked her view. I proved it by walking towards the car in the blind spot and asking her when she could see mee with the seat in her normal position and then in my suggested position. In the revised position she also had better clutch control and smoother steering. But she still put the seat back into her usual positon "because it felt right"! Incidentally, this is ina Sierra estate.
Edited by Philbes on Monday 26th March 17:00
Philbes said:
I have a sister-in-law who sits too low and too close to the steering wheel. I pointed out that it was dangerous as the closer her head is to the A-pillar the more that A-pillar blocked her view. I proved it by walking towards the car in the blind spot and asking her when she could see mee with the seat in her normal position and then in my suggested position. In the revised position she also had better clutch control and smoother steering. But she still put the seat back into her usual positon "because it felt right"! Incidentally, this is ina Sierra estate.
Edited by Philbes on Monday 26th March 17:00
its also dangerous as the airbag will put their nose through the back of their neck!
Thats providing
A)You were wise enough to book your cab before leaving home
or
B)you are able to SEE the keypad after 1/2 a shandy and a sniff of the barmans apron
or
C)You don't have a kebab stuck to the side of your face or look like your about to do a technicolour yawn in the back of the afore mention cab
A)You were wise enough to book your cab before leaving home
or
B)you are able to SEE the keypad after 1/2 a shandy and a sniff of the barmans apron
or
C)You don't have a kebab stuck to the side of your face or look like your about to do a technicolour yawn in the back of the afore mention cab
Working selling cars I go out pretty frequently with women driving, I find the main issue is that the majority of women need to see the front of the car, the furthest point of the bonnet. They do this by sitting is high up and close to the wheel as possible. Men on the other hand are happy just to acknowledge that its somewhere in front and so sit low and further back.
I understand this might be related to differences in the way male and female brains work but I'm not a psychologist so that might be bollox.
I understand this might be related to differences in the way male and female brains work but I'm not a psychologist so that might be bollox.
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