Being universally bad behind the wheel is one of the more enduring (and obnoxious) stereotypes about women.
Hold on to your handbrakes ladies, because the results of a new British study published in The Telegraph found that women are better drivers than men, so all the road rage and bad jokes you’ve endured are not actually based on empirical evidence.

Privilege Insurance conducted a month-long look at drivers in one of London’s busiest intersections by monitoring 50 people from the inside of their cars and 200 people from the outside of their cars. After analyzing each driver using 14 different points of driving criteria, the overall score for women was 23.6 out of 30, while men only scored 19.8 — and the biggest gender discrepancies related to safety and speed.
75 percent of women drove the appropriate speed while approaching hazards, while only 55 percent of men did. 85 percent of women stopped safely at yellow lights, while only 44 percent of men did. As far as negatively impacting other drivers, women clocked in at 54 percent, while men maxed out at 73 percent.
