Left Handed People Are Better Drivers

Being left handed brings on a number of complications in life since most everything is designed for the common right handed person, but in the sports world, left handed people tend to excel.  Baseball's left handed pitchers and batters traditionally fare well and some of bowling's biggest stars are south paws.  And now a new study reveals that left handed people are actually better drivers.

The Center for Handedness Research and The Zebra studied 1,500 drivers for ten years and found that left-handed people get into fewer accidents than right-handed people.

The author of the study, Glenn Haversham says,

"Because we drive on the right in this country, left-handed drivers may be used to a constant revision of their instincts, keeping them more on their toes and ready to react to sudden threats."

We're assuming that means left handed people are always a little more tense than us common right handers...but his next point does make sense.

"Cars are designed with the right-handed driver in mind . . . think especially of the gear shift. This allows right-handed drivers to become complacent" . . . while left-handed people have to pay more attention."

 

Wonder if they'll start charging us by the hand we use when we get car insurance?