That Orange and Yellow sticker on the back of the car (Van? Mini-van? Mini-mini-van?) is an “Old Unskillful Driver” sign; a riff on the similar mandatory Yellow and Green “Rookie Mark” sticker that new drivers put on their cars in Japan as a warning to others.
That’s interesting — I know that New Jersey requires “rookie driver” stickers on newly licensed teen drivers’ cars, but the law is widely ignored for a variety of reasons, chiefly that both parents and kids worry that it’ll mark their cars as targets for criminals. I can’t say I disagree. Here in Virginia any parents use similar “rookie driver” stickers, but they’re sort of meaningless because more often than not the parent will just leave the sticker on the car full-time regardless of who’s driving.
I’ve never heard of an elderly driver sticker, but I can see a similar worry about safety as with the teen driver stickers… it marks one as a target. In Japan, however, I assume that personal crime is much rarer, so maybe that’s not much of a concern. Interesting concept in the right environment, I suppose.
And on the wikipedia page, it seems like the “koreisha mark” for elderly drivers was redesigned from this orange/yellow pattern in 2011, so the driver of this car has an elderly sticker denoting an elderly driver. But they’re sure a skillful parker!
“Yes, yes, I know they were having dinner, but look, the satnav clearly says straight on here, see?”
That Orange and Yellow sticker on the back of the car (Van? Mini-van? Mini-mini-van?) is an “Old Unskillful Driver” sign; a riff on the similar mandatory Yellow and Green “Rookie Mark” sticker that new drivers put on their cars in Japan as a warning to others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshinsha_mark
So, we can assume that the car and driver both have long lifes (sic).
That’s interesting — I know that New Jersey requires “rookie driver” stickers on newly licensed teen drivers’ cars, but the law is widely ignored for a variety of reasons, chiefly that both parents and kids worry that it’ll mark their cars as targets for criminals. I can’t say I disagree. Here in Virginia any parents use similar “rookie driver” stickers, but they’re sort of meaningless because more often than not the parent will just leave the sticker on the car full-time regardless of who’s driving.
I’ve never heard of an elderly driver sticker, but I can see a similar worry about safety as with the teen driver stickers… it marks one as a target. In Japan, however, I assume that personal crime is much rarer, so maybe that’s not much of a concern. Interesting concept in the right environment, I suppose.
And on the wikipedia page, it seems like the “koreisha mark” for elderly drivers was redesigned from this orange/yellow pattern in 2011, so the driver of this car has an elderly sticker denoting an elderly driver. But they’re sure a skillful parker!
“Life’s a piece of shit when you look at it”
Japanese Herbie?
The koreisha mark is also used by the JNC blog.