British survey show women more accurate, but slower

That old stereotype about women not knowing how to drive? The anecdotal evidence derived from those hundreds of YouTube videos of women "mis-parking"? Forget 'em.

U.K. parking lot operator NCP recently commissioned a survey of 2,500 drivers in its garages, and found women were actually better at parking than men, reports CTV.

Using CCTV footage and judging based on factors like "appropriate parking speed, pre-parking pose, central finish and reverse or forward speed," women and men were handed a 20-point parking score.

Female drivers nabbed an average score of 13.4 while male motorists saw a 12.3 average. Turns out women parked dead-centre twice as often as men, and backed in more frequently (39 percent of women did in the survey, while only 28 percent of men tried it).

Despite most women showed superior parking skills, only 20 percent polled said they thought, generally, that women park better than men. I guess they've bought into the stereotypes, too.

The one thing men did better than women when it came to squeezing into a spot? Time. Male drivers accomplished the task in 16 seconds on average, whereas most females took 21 seconds.



(CTV and NCP Parking Report)