El Garage de Paxuz: marzo 2014

jueves, 20 de marzo de 2014

These are the ACTUAL facts. As far as I can tell, men are the worse drivers..

■ Women tend to have fewer crashes and their car accident claims tend to cost less than men’s (source: 2007 AAMI claims data)
■ Men are more likely than women to be involved in serious accidents – that is, men experience more head-on collisions, roll-overs, loss-of-control crashes and collisions involving pedestrians, cyclists or animals whereas women are more likely than men to collide with stationary objects or reverse into other cars (source: 2007 AAMI claims data)
■ Men are more likely than women to have experienced a crash – 82 per cent versus 77 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to have hit an animal while driving – 60 per cent versus 41 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ As drivers, men are more likely than women to have had a close call with a pedestrian/cyclist – 46 per cent versus 35 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index Women are more likely than men to think drivers are becoming more aggressive – 94 per cent versus 88 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ One in five men (20 per cent) admits to being an impatient driver versus one in six women or 16 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to rudely gesture at another driver – 59 per cent versus 55 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to verbally abuse another driver – 60 per cent versus 57 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to have been a passenger in a car being driven dangerously – 66 per cent versus 57 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
Women are more likely than men to think drivers are becoming more aggressive – 94 per cent versus 88 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ One in five men (20 per cent) admits to being an impatient driver versus one in six women or 16 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to rudely gesture at another driver – 59 per cent versus 55 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to verbally abuse another driver – 60 per cent versus 57 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to have been a passenger in a car being driven dangerously – 66 per cent versus 57 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
Nearly twice as many men as women admit to speeding most of the time – 10 per cent versus six per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to agree they speed to get home or work sooner – 36 per cent versus 30 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ One in eight men (13 per cent) admits they often ignore restricted speed limits versus six per cent of women (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
Nearly half of all men (48 per cent) admit to having driven when over the legal limit versus one in four women or 26 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are more likely than women to take a different route home to avoid being breathalysed – 19 per cent versus 11 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ More men than women are concerned about being over the legal limit when driving the day after a big night – 51 per cent versus 39 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are twice as likely as women to believe that it’s ok for them to drink-drive as long as they feel capable – 12 per cent versus six per cent (source: 2007 AAMI
Crash Index)
■ Men are twice as likely as women to seriously over-estimate the number of drinks they can have in a given period and remain under the legal limit for driving:
• One in 10 Australian women (13 per cent) over-estimated the number of drinks they could have, answering three or more and a further one in five (16 per cent) didn’t know
• Almost one in seven Australian men (14 per cent) over-estimated the number of drinks they could have, answering four or more and a further one in six (11 per cent) didn’t know (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Twice as many men as women admit to having driven after using recreational drugs – 14 per cent versus nine per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)
■ Men are twice as likely as women to have momentarily fallen asleep at the wheel – 37 per cent versus 15 per cent (source: 2007 AAMI Crash Index)

Super car driver idiots Crash Compilation

Gina

The BMW GINA Light Visionary Model is what happens when car designers throw away the rulebook and start thinking about "the future" (though not the same cheesy, "highway of tomorrow" future of 50s designers). Instead of using sheet metal like almost every other car ever made, the GINA's skin is made entirely out of shiny, textile fabric.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_17048_8-awesome-cars-they-wont-let-you-buy_p2.html#ixzz2wXLXyCTo