Twitter was alive this morning with comments over the shocking results that research uncovered that women are better parkers than men, according to the latest statistics released this morning.

According to the results published by the Daily Telegraph thirty-nine per cent of female drivers cleanly executed reversing into spaces, compared to only 28 per cent of men. However, it also reported that, as the average motorist parks a car 1,004 times in their lifetime, women spend 12 days of their lives parking compared to nine days for men.

According to the report, while women parkers may leave the car better parked within the bay it does seem to take them much longer. Men were much quicker at parking, taking 16 seconds on average against the 21 seconds women needed to complete the manoeuvre. Enter ‘women drivers’ into Youtube and a smattering of clips containing bad driving and attempts-at-parking fall before your eyes.

One such tweeter commented how the missus might be good at parking, “just a shame about the driving” so perhaps the age-old argument of men vs. women hasn’t quite been cleared up.

Enter ‘women drivers’ into YouTube and a smattering of clips containing bad driving and attempts-at-parking fall before your eyes. So while the statistics may have proved that women are overall better parkers than men it doesn’t seem to correctly take into account the length of time taken (a shocking 4 minutes as per the Youtube clip below!) or establish the overall quality of driving.

One young male driver Pete said: “Statistics can be warped in whichever direction and while it’s been proven that women are better parkers than men, this doesn’t account as to why insurance premiums are much higher for men than women.”

However another male driver Lee supported the report’s remarks that men tend to be less judicious. “Women take their time and tend to be a lot more cautionary and I prefer that in people I share the roads with.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSLbzHlaFlQ