The study was commissioned by BMW and carried out by the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC) in Oxford, and was designed to highlight human behaviour in cars and how that might affect the future of car ownership and motoring.

Men v women
The study found that men behave in a different way to women in the car.

A man may cruise with one hand on the wheel, but women are more likely to grab it with two – psychologists say this is because men consider their cars to be part of themselves, but women see it as a separate entity.

‘Women are more comfortable expressing their feelings directly and see the car as separate. That’s why women give names to their cars,’ said co-author Iain MacRury, of the University of East London.

Sursa: Sky motoring, UK