<p>I just found this interesting article.</p>
<p>[Tagging</a> teen drivers for their protection - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/07/31/aa.teen.driver.magnets/index.html]Tagging”>Tagging teen drivers for their protection - CNN.com)</p>
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<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>No way, not unless you want your teenager to get tickets and jack up your insurance premium. They are targeted by police already.</p>
<p>I can<code>t believe it. I would never put this on my D</code>s car, IMHO this is setting you up for problems. Being a new driver is not an excuse for driving behaviour. My D has her license and owns her own vehicle but she was only able to drive by herself once I felt confortable and secure with her abilities. She has taken drivers ed and also defensive driving courses. I was taught very young that I am driving a vehicle that can kill and that it is my resposibility to be careful, I have never forgotten that and my D has been taught the same way. I am not so blind as to believe that she will never do something wrong but I do not believe that putting a sign on her car would make a difference to the way she drives and I fear that some new drivers would use this as an excuse. I can also picture some young punks (for lack of better word) purposely trying to scare someone when they see that on their car. For that matter I could also believe some police officers making life very misserable for an advertised new driver. Sorry if I seem to be ranting on this one. I know that I am probably in the minority on this and I do not want to start a hard core debate but that is how a feel.</p>
<p>[For</a> teen drivers, some safety tips and a sticker ID - NJ.com](<a href=“http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/for_teen_drivers_some_safety_t.html]For”>For teen drivers, some safety tips and a sticker ID - nj.com)</p>
<p>Provisional license stickers were the norm in IReland, not sure if it was a law, but ALL new drivers had them when I lived there, teens or older people.</p>
<p>So you want to advertise to one and all that a 16-year-old girl is driving a car alone.</p>
<p>To be fair, we’d have to put a sticker on the old folks’ cars (it wasn’t a new driver–to put it mildly–who drove his car through the wall of an elementary school in town a while back), and stickers on the cars of parents hauling around a bunch of rambunctious kids, and stickers on the cars of people with DWI convictions, and some more stickers for every car being driven in a big city by someone visiting from a two-traffic light town…</p>
<p>Sounds distracting.</p>
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<p>Well, my first instinct (not thought out) is that this is not a bad idea.</p>
<p>I drive better than my parents do.</p>
<p>Then again, my parents are Asian, and old.</p>
<p>I think the tags have some value. I don’t see how it could encourage bad driving behavior – if anything I think it would make a kid more conscientious. I do think it would make surrounding drivers a little bit more careful. I’m always more careful when I see a car that is a drivers training car. It’s not that I’m not a careful driver, but I’m just going to give a wider berth to someone who is learning to drive. I would put more distance between myself and a teen driver in front of me in case they needed to stop short, etc. I don’t think it would endanger female drivers – anyone who is looking for a young female driver doesn’t need a new driver sign to find her.</p>
<p>This is incredibly discriminatory. Old drivers have just as much of a chance at being bad as new drivers. If you’ve passed the requirements to get a licence, you shouldn’t have to be pointed out.</p>
<p>I kind of like it for when you are driving with your child during the permit period. For us, that’s at least 6 months. Our schools drivers ed car (yes, you can still take on the road driving at our HS) has a sign and when I see it, I always give it a bit more room and lower my expectations for turning quickly, etc. Of course, that could be because of the minor fender bender my daughter had when she was first driving with a permit. </p>
<p>We were driving on a road half a mile from our house and she needed to turn left onto another road. I said turn here and she put on her right turn signal and started to turn right. Immediately, I said, “No, not right, turn left.” Instead of completing the right turn that she had committed to and then turning around, she thought she could just change her mind and turn left. Which, she probably could have since we were going pretty slow, but she didn’t take into account the car that was going pretty fast behind us and decided to pass us on the left when she started turning right. We clipped him. Just a minor nip but enough to scare my daughter and for her to declare that she was done driving and would never, ever get behind the wheel again. That lasted about a week.</p>
<p>The reason I’m mentioning that though is if she had had one of those signs on her car, I think the other driver would have behaved differently. I wouldn’t want it on the car after the student got their license and could drive alone, but during the permit time, it would be good.</p>
<p>Absolutely not. Leaving aside the fact that an extra car didn’t magically appear in our driveways when my twins turned 16, and that we share our cars as appropriate and feasible – I can think of nothing stupider than calling attention to the fact that here is a young person in a car alone. My D works at our local mall, and leaves at 9:30 pm. I understand that she’s got to learn how to handle herself and walk with purpose and park in well lit areas and walk with coworkers and so forth, but please … no need to draw attention to “16 yo girl driving car alone.”</p>
<p>I bought several a year ago when my daughter got her permit-I am in the car with her-and it seems to make people back off when she dares to go the speed limit.</p>
<p>In Illinois, once you reach a certain age in your mid to upper 70s, your license is only good for 2 years and you have to take a driving test each time. Once you reach your 80s, the license is only good for one year, and you have to take a driving test each time. In case of a major accident, your license can be placed into immediate renewal.</p>