'Men changing attitude to driving'

25 January 2010

A new poll has shown that 13% of men in Britain do not have a driving licence, and 33% of these believe they do not need to drive.

Among those who do not drive, a third said the high cost of lessons was the reason why they did not take the wheel.

But the survey of 2,126 adults also suggested that men are changing their attitudes towards driving, although old beliefs of women being poor motorists still remain.

Nearly half (44%) of men and 26% of women surveyed thought female drivers were poor at parking or reversing.

And while 26% of men believe they are better at driving than women, just 5% of women think they are better motorists than men.

Around 44% of women in the survey said they expected men to have licences, and 7% even said they thought less of a man if he did not drive, the poll by insurance company ibuyeco revealed.

The firm's head Lucy Bailey said: "Our research shows that times - and men's attitudes to driving - are changing. All the same, it seems that some things never change.

"The old cliches of men being better drivers still stand and women think it odd if a man can't drive."

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