Think you’re a good passenger when someone else is driving the car? It turns out, there’s more to it than just buckling your seat belt and making conversation. New research is calling out the most annoying things people do in the car when someone else is behind the wheel.
A survey of 2-thousand drivers reveals what passengers do that frustrates them most:
- Topping the list is passengers complaining, followed by blocking the mirrors and reaching for the invisible brake.
- Drivers also don’t like it when the people they’re ferrying around throw wrappers on the floor in the car or mess with the radio.
- Watching loud videos on their phone, sticking their feet on the dashboard are also big don’ts for passengers.
- Yelling to warn drivers about cars pulling out ahead of them is also irritating to those behind the wheel.
- Passengers having loud phone conversations and not giving accurate directions are frustrating, too.
- The poll finds that 17% of women think their partner is an annoying passenger and a “backseat driver,” but 69% of men feel they’re a good passenger.
- Nearly two-thirds (62%) of men prefer being in the driver’s seat and 42% admit they like being in control.
- Close to half of men (45%) believe they’re a better driver than their partner, but 32% of them confess that changes when they need their partner to be the designated driver.
- Among the guys who prefer to be the driver, 15% admit they don’t like the way their partner drives.
- But in 20% of couples, men do the driving as part of their relationship “chore split” they agree to.
- And for 43% of couples, car trips regularly end in arguments, and some are so bad, 19% don’t speak to each other for a while afterwards.
Source: Talking Points