Survey reveals Aussie drivers admit to picking their noses – a lot
New survey reveals many undesirable actions are taken by Australian motorists behind the wheel every day.According to a new survey, Aussie drivers pick their nose an average of 655 times over a seven-year period while driving.
Given that’s an average, you can bet your bottom dollar there’s some really disgusting moments among that. And don’t even ask about the scab picking average…
The survey of 1047 licensed Australian drivers was conducted by YouGov in partnership with Korean car-maker SsangYong, as part of the SsangYong Drive Long Study.
The objective was to understand what drivers would do inside their cars and how they would use their vehicles over a seven-year period. Coincidentally seven years is the warranty period for SsangYong vehicles in Australia.
According to the data, an average of 5064 individual trips were made by drivers across a seven-year period, and drivers opened their boot – or tailgate if they have a wagon or SUV – in only around a quarter of those drives, or 1343 times.
Furthermore, there’s no gender equality when it comes to reverse parking, with Australian men backing their vehicles into car parks an extra 251 times compared to women over a seven-year timeframe – or 1700 anxiety-provoking manoeuvres versus 1449.
Another question asked of drivers in the survey was “how often do you talk to yourself in the car?” and the answer was … quite a bit! The average was 1281 times over a seven-year period or 183 times per year – around once every two days.
The survey also found the average Australian will “sing out like a Rockstar” roughly 979 times over a seven-year period and, intriguingly, men said they took 692 more drives than women – 5424 trips versus 4732.
Millennials and Gen Xers said they took more trips than Baby Boomers – 5675 and 5777 compared to just 4277.
Parents will be pleased to know that all kids misbehave in cars, with children being told to quiet down 876 on average over seven years. And when there were no kids in the car (or possibly there were!), a total of 1041 ‘passionate’ kisses were performed.
These numbers could have been greatly skewed by the millions of Victorians currently undergoing months of hard lockdown in 2020, which permits residents to leave their dwelling for only a handful of reasons – and unfortunately, that doesn’t include going for a drive to pick their nose.
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