![]() ![]() Interestingly, there are some countries like the UK, Canada, Japan and Australia that require young drivers who are just learning to drive to have either a special license plate or a special sticker on their vehicle. However, I’ve seen people actually harass and drive more aggressively around our cars once they notice it’s a novice driver – often trying to startle them with sudden braking, honking, swerving, etc.” Having spent countless hours in a well-marked student driver car, I can say that many people are friendlier in their behavior, but I speculate it’s more for self-preservation than actual courtesy. “That being said, drivers should be more patient, allow extra room, and take more caution when sharing the road with student drivers, ones with stickers and ones in driver’s ed cars like ours. He added that if drivers just paid attention, drive safely and followed traffic laws, they wouldn’t need to drive any differently around student drivers. Forget slow speed for a moment - even if the student driver was full-on stopped in the middle of the road and someone rear ends them, the person who rear ended them will be cited and the student driver would have a viable civil claim against the other person as well.”ĭinwiddie told me most teens he takes out on the road don’t want any added attention to their driving as they are already overly self-conscious creatures who think everyone is already judging them. “If someone (a student driver) is driving in an unsafe manner, which might include driving too slowly, they might be subject to a ticket for creating an unsafe condition even in the absence of a collision. ![]() MORE: Read more traffic issues driving people crazy “I don’t believe that a student driver, sticker or not, is entitled to any special protections,” says personal injury attorney David McDivitt.ĭavid tells me that the rules of the road apply equally to both new and experienced drivers no matter what kind of sticker or warning you have on your car. “These stickers only draw more attention to the car/driver and thus reduces any perceived protection.” I’ve always thought good drivers are the ones nobody notices on the road,” said Chad Shepperd DriveSafe Training Instructor. “But now that those stickers are so much more common, they have very little impact.” “When those magnetic stickers first came out, it was new and people were probably more cautious”, says Jake Dinwiddie, DriveSafe Driving School Senior Lead Instructor. ![]() He chose not to drive for a while and went through drivers ed courses to help familiarize himself with getting behind the wheel again and helping with lowering his insurance rates. I used to work with a man who lost his license for many years after receiving a DUI. While most of the adults driving a car with a student driver sticker attached are well-seasoned drivers, some might not be. ![]() There are no protections guaranteed to the driver for posting a sticker, nor are there any consequences.”īut remember Bob, not every student driver is just learning or is a teenager. Joe Moylan with the Aurora Police Department sums it up this way: “The spirit of attaching a ‘student driver’ sticker to your car is in hopes other drivers will give a new driver some grace while they learn how to navigate the roads. If a person is not a new or student driver, can they get in any sort of trouble for having these stickers on their vehicles? The reason for asking is that I seem to see more of these on the roads and, looking at the folks behind the wheels, they look as if they've been driving for some time now.” What "protections" do drivers have when they have a "new driver" or "student driver" stickers on their vehicles? In other words, should other drivers treat them differently and, if so, how? 2. Bob from Aurora writes, “What's driving you crazy? Two part question: 1. ![]()
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