Bad driving may have genetic basis

Bad driving may have genetic basis

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Bad driving may be genetic and 30 percent of U.S. adults have the gene variant, U.S. researchers suggest.

Neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine, said people people with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it -- and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results.

Senior author Dr. Steven Cramer, a neurology associate professor, said about 30 percent of Americans have the variant.

"These people make more errors from the get-go, and they forget more of what they learned after time away," Cramer said in a statement.

The driving test was taken by 29 people -- 22 without the gene variant and seven with it. They were asked to drive 15 laps on a simulator that required them to learn the nuances of a track programmed to have difficult curves and turns.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/10/29/Study-Bad-driving-may-have-genetic-basis/UPI-81181256845023/

Pre-existing conditions for car insurance...

and suck on this q-tip. stranger scenarios have come to pass.

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someone had to say it.

at least i can back it up with an expert opinion lol

The second worst driver I've ever known was male..

Of course the worst was female..........

didn't you know?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/may/13/thisweekssciencequestions1

swerving out of the way of female drivers.

Heh

Of course if you were to take that same premise, that men are hardwired to be risk takers, and apply it to some other data set, say success in the business world, you'd have people screaming "sexism" from the top of their lungs.

Males with GREAT BIG pickups are the worst.

soccer moms in minivans.. ive had them go across 4 lanes of traffic at once almost wiping me out, and the obligatory stop in the travel lanes when they get pulled, move to the shoulder for gawds sake... but women driving minivans win hands down...

too?

mark

:)

Republican gene.....

maybe that is too horrible to contemplate.

mark

Can I call you a cab? ;-)

I support identifying all factors that describe elements of risk, insurance by its very nature is not egalitarian.

only 7 in the control group.

For something as complex as driving you would need a much larger sample size. A thousand or more.

from environment? They could have simply been taught to drive poorly and saw no reason to change as everyone in their family did the same.

somehow they totaled a Datsun in the process.

Impressive.

That does'nt end with me laughing until breathless.....:silly: :silly::silly::silly::silly: :rofl::rofl::rof:rofl:l:

She got the front wheels up against a speed bump and killed the engine about twenty or thirty times trying to get over it..

When I couldn't contain my amusement any longer she got mad and jumped out of the truck.. :)

;) At least you were just laughing... My parents scarred me for life. My father was too damn impatient and seemed to have expected me to be able to do it without any screwing up... My mother would freak out about anything and everything. Which pretty much made me think that if I pressed the gas pedal I would die, along with everyone around me... Even though I got my license at 17, I didn't really start driving until I was 21 after my sister in law helped me get over the damage my parents done.

because i'm laughing...although, it might have just been a beat up old car in which one scratch or dent would effectively total it?

because i'm laughing...although, it might have just been a beat up old car in which one scratch or dent would effectively total it?

Lots of shit on that thing.

at least the roads will be safer.

That is all...