Women Are Better at Parking Than Men

Feb. 22, 2012 - PRLog -- Female drivers are more adept at parking than men, a new study has found. Covert surveillance of car parks across Britain has shown that while women may take longer to park (21 seconds compared with 16 seconds), they are more likely to leave their vehicles in the middle of a bay.

Researchers studied parking manoeuvres carried out by 2,500 drivers over the course of one month. According to NCP, the study took various aspects of parking, including: technique, accuracy and time taken, to produce a “parking coefficient” score which stands at 13.4 for women and 12.3 for men.

Only 29% of men chose to start “repositioning” the car, while 56% of women found themselves shuffling forward and backwards to try and obtain a better final position.

Women were also found to be better at finding spaces, more accurate in lining themselves up before starting each manoeuvre, and more likely to adopt the instructors’ preferred method of reversing into bays.

Men were shown to be more skilled at driving forwards into spaces and more confident overall, with fewer opting to reposition their car once in a bay.

Neil Beeson, a professional driving instructor who devised the experiment, described the results as surprising. “In my experience men have always been the best learners and usually performed better in lessons. However, it’s possible that women have retained the information better. The results also appear to dispel the myth that men have better spatial awareness than women,” the Telegraph quoted Beeson as saying.

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