The EU Law Machine Strikes Again With Another Brilliant Idea :-) LOL

[pris]

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/wom...113141464.html

Yeah, like we need more 'boy racers' on the road


Oh, PS. Saw my local Asda had implemented the 'tobacco behind screens out of children's site' protocol today. Geez, smokers must feel like they're queuing to buy grot mags now :/

[Frosted]

They've just realised that women can't drive.
My wife has had 3 accidents whilst I haven't had any. My mates wife keeps filling up the diesel car with petrol etc etc.

[lxskllr]

I don't understand this...

This latest ruling stipulates that insurers cannot discriminate on the basis of gender when setting insurance premiums, despite the fact that women drivers are less likely to have a crash and are involved in far less serious road accidents.

Then they go on to say they are in fact discriminating based on gender, and that presumably women are worse drivers(as anyone who's ever driven knows)

[devilock76]

"Women drivers, no survivors." - An EMT friend of mine, many years ago...

Ken

[Frosted]

I was looking up women driver videos on liveleak to post one here - but there's too freakin' many of them to even pick just one.

[pris]

My take on it was that at the moment insurance companies adjust premiums in light of which risk group they feel a driver falls into which had the effect that 17yr old boy racer premiums were markedly higher which to an extent held some of them back from hitting the road and lowered lower risk groups' premiums but now, as it turns out they see women as the lowest risk, due to equality rules they can no longer do that and so the lower risk groups will pay more and the boy racer safety net is lifted to a degree due to a drop in their premiums so there will be more on the road.

Ref bad women drivers personally I don't see that. I know my girlfriend never had an accident in about 23 years of driving where as in my younger days I had 3 or 4. I always thought she drove more sensibly and cautiously than me until I got older.

[Darwin]

The ruling is simple gender equality run amok. In the U.S., anecdotal evidence notwithstanding, women have much lower accident rates so premiums reflect that fact. The lower accident rates are likely to be the same in the EU but, unsurprisingly, these days political correctness trumps solid actuarial statistics.

[Frosted]

The son of a friend is trying to insure his car and he can't get a quote less than £1,800 for any car.

[lxskllr]

Ref bad women drivers personally I don't see that. I know my girlfriend never had an accident in about 23 years of driving where as in my younger days I had 3 or 4. I always thought she drove more sensibly and cautiously than me until I got older.

The statistics lie with regards to women drivers. Younger males suck, usually due to thinking they're NASCAR drivers, and pushing the edge, but they're generally more skilled. Women do stupid shit on the road, and cause accidents that aren't technically their fault, but caused them out of incompetence. There was an old woman that lived down the street from my mother. She got in 3 fairly bad accidents in a single year, none of which were her "fault". Why do you suppose those accidents happened to a woman who really didn't drive much? The statistics that track female drivers work the same way. I used to spend A LOT of time driving, and I could spot the female drivers with ~90% accuracy. Women cause chaos and destruction their wake, and men take the blame for it. Just as it's been since time began :^/

[Frosted]

I won't get in the car if my wife is driving but I made the mistake of giving her a map to read on a long journey. We got totally lost, so I slammed on the brakes (there were no other cars about) got out of the car and walked round to her side, calmly opened the door, took the map from her, threw it into a field, shut the door and calmly got back in without saying a word. Without a map I found our way back to where we should have been very quickly. (these were the days before Tom Toms).
Women are mentally disabled when it comes to doing anything practical and nobody could convince me otherwise.

[Frosted]

Another time - and I give you my word that these stories are true - we were going around the M25 (which is a motorway that goes around London in a circle) and all she had to do was direct me off at a junction, by map, and get me on a right road. Fail. When we pulled over I discovered that as the M25 is circular, she had the map upside down and didn't realise.

[devilock76]

The ruling is simple gender equality run amok. In the U.S., anecdotal evidence notwithstanding, women have much lower accident rates so premiums reflect that fact. The lower accident rates are likely to be the same in the EU but, unsurprisingly, these days political correctness trumps solid actuarial statistics.

My problem is discrimination is altering things based on purely an arbitrary factor, like say gender or race. But that is not what they are doing, they have statistics to back up that there is an actual difference. That is not technically discrimination, it is data analysis. +1 on Lx's statement on women cause chaos that men get blamed for...

Ken

[devilock76]

For every man that is in a speeding wreck there is woman a mile or so behind him that he just passed and is now late and pissed while she was applying her makeup and swerving almost hitting a stopped school bus, and a yield sign, because the yellow matched her depends...

Ken

[Frosted]

Posted about an hour ago on Liveleak.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7aa_1331097169

Yep, it's a woman.

[sgreger1]

Wtf, this is a thing? :

Insurance companies said women could benefit from lower insurance premiums if they opted for "black box" technology. Here insurance premiums are based on driving habits how often people drive, what time of day they drive, whether they break speed limits etc.