Should Woman Be Behind the Wheel? Or Should Not?

Be it woman or man who drives, accidents still happened anyway. But we can clearly see the differences between how man and woman drives. There are a few aspects or woman's driving that might lead to a state of generalization which said woman shouldn't be behind the wheel.

1. Unstable Emotions
Every woman has a similar emotions syndrome which is known as Premenstrual Syndrome or PMS. According to White (2014), common symptoms that appear during PMS are depression, headache, sadness, clumsiness and high temper. During driving, this symptoms may cause woman to loss focus on the road. For example, she may lose control of the car due to sudden depression and sadness. Her mind, at that time; is not totally on the road but on the other thing as well that can lead to loss control of the car. So when she loses control of the car, it can bring danger to both herself and other drivers as well.

2. All Pedals Are Brake Pedal
In a panic situation, a woman will hit all the pedals she can instead of the brake pedal. This is because woman mostly can't handle the situation of panic thus loss control of the car. Of course there is a reason to this. Most woman will likely choose an auto car instead of a manual one since it is easier to drive. Yes it is easier since you don't have to use all your hands and legs like manual cars. One hand on the steering and one leg on the pedals is enough. But since it only need one leg and one hand to drive, they tend to put their leg and hand on a relax position thus when something bad happens, their limbs is not on a ready position to act.

3. Voice That Control the Movement
Once ago I went out with my girlfriend. Then I was so tired so I let her drives while I take a nap. But suddenly I heard a scream that woke me up. The car has nearly went down a river! I asked her what happened and she told me that she nearly loss control of the car. Then I asked why scream? Then she said she didn't know why she just felt like screaming so she screamed. Then I realized that in panic situation, woman mostly will try to control the car using their voice instead of using their hand. As if the car is going to stop if she screams "STOP!".sigh*

Maybe one day when someone invent a car that has no steering but using voice to control the car, or a car that can analyze panic situation and brake itself, or a car that can detect the PMS and give a warning for woman in PMS to not driving, then woman can be considered good driver as good as man. But until it happen, I think that better let man drives, unless if there is emergency or urgent matter. I will not say woman shouldn't drives because it is everyone's right but it is not advisable for woman to be behind the wheel.

Reference
Cynthia. D. W. (November 11, 2014). Premenstrual Syndrome. Retrieved from https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001505.htm