Is this a thing now? I started seeing these a few years ago, and now I am seeing them everywhere, I see like 4 to 6 a day in my daily outings and commute it seems like.

A large yellow sticker that says “STUDENT DRIVER” or “ Please Be Patient - Student Driver”.

There can’t be this many student drivers on the road, can there?

Or is this somebody’s idea that maybe they’ll get more leeway for driving more slowly or something?

Have any of you noticed this where you live?

Illegal aliens doin' the work to get their license!

Probably just parents of younger drivers hoping the sticker will help provide a little extra patience from the other drivers out there.

I’ve noticed that I see them a lot more than I used to as well.

My theory is that people that drive slower than the posted limit put these on in hopes it keeps those of us that drive the actual speed limit off of their rear bumpers. I’m not a fan in any case.

It is for drivers looking for a way to tell their fellow motorists that they really don't know how to drive.

They have to get these stickers and put them on the car since they don't have Florida plates.

Many are too lazy/distracted/stupid to remove the sign when other-than-the-student-driver is using the car?

None where I live. They eliminated the driving test.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
It is for drivers looking for a way to tell their fellow motorists that they really don't know how to drive.

They have to get these stickers and put them on the car since they don't have Florida plates.

I am seeing them a lot more in the central Florida area near where I live.
As I pass the slow moving car I expect to see a young person driving however lately I am seeing more middle aged people driving.

Few random thoughts that might explain this:

1) Uptick in driver's ed classes and driving practice during the summer, when kids (the majority of student drivers) are out of school.

2) Backlog of student drivers resulting in there being more than usual currently, if they couldn't hold driver's ed classes or do DL testing in your area from 2020-2021/2022.

3) Frequency bias. This is a phenomenon where you're surrounded by something every day and don't notice it, but then something happens that makes you start paying attention to it or it starts being on your mind, and suddenly you start seeing it everywhere. There hasn't been an actual increase in frequency; they were always there all along... you just didn't notice them until now, since you now have a reason to be thinking about them and looking for them.

4) New driving school just opened along your daily commute route.

I think most drivers are student drivers and they're pretty poor students.

Expires 26 years after birth:

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Yeah, what's with those stupid "Baby on board" signs anyway? I mean c'mon, WTF is it supposed to mean? "Please don't hit me as hard as you would otherwise!"? IMO they're nothing but a distraction and are more likely to contribute to an accident than to prevent one. Especially after people started getting cute with them. "Mother-in-law in trunk" for example, which was actually pretty funny, but still a distractor. The "Student Driver" ones are just the same, distracting.

My 15 year old is learning to drive, a stick, in Colorado. My wife has several of these on her car and my daughters future car. With so many jackholes driving around, and every one suffering from road rage we are hoping this will at least give someone pause if her driving is sending them into a rage. Just look around at all the people passing on double yellows, riding the extreme bumper, flipping everyone else the finger, speeding, weaving in and out of traffic. Maybe we can get them to stay away from her.
Especially with the hills in colorado, every stop sign is a hill, and a new driver is guaranteed to roll back, so the sign will hopefully encourage people to back off and give her room to get going. But even when I drive her car, with a "Student Driver Learning Stick Shift", I still get assholes who wanna park 1 inch of my bumper at an uphill stop. So maybe it is just tilting at windmills.

Folks across the street from us had one on their Colorado when their son was learning to drive. Doesn't bother me.

I see them all the time and have for years, but I live just "up the street" essentially from a university with a large number of Asian and Indian students, I suppose many of them driving for the first time. The funny thing is they don't need the signs, you can tell just by how slow and cautiously they're driving.

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Originally posted by 71 TRUCK:
I am seeing them a lot more in the central Florida area near where I live.
As I pass the slow moving car I expect to see a young person driving however lately I am seeing more middle aged people driving.

That’s exactly what I am seeing. It’s not a woman who is old enough to have a 15-18 year old child, it’s an older person usually. Sometimes much older like senior citizen older.

I saw a car that had six of these damn stickers; two on rear bumper, two on rear quarter panels and two on doors. WTF?

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Originally posted by PASig:
Is this a thing now? I started seeing these a few years ago, and now I am seeing them everywhere, I see like 4 to 6 a day in my daily outings and commute it seems like.

A large yellow sticker that says “STUDENT DRIVER” or “ Please Be Patient - Student Driver”.

There can’t be this many student drivers on the road, can there?

Or is this somebody’s idea that maybe they’ll get more leeway for driving more slowly or something?

Have any of you noticed this where you live?

ABSOLUTELY!!! And I have wondered about this as well. Back in the day the only time you saw “Student Driver” on a car was a 15 year old learning to drive by a driver training company with a driver trainer in the car. Now in the last two years I see so many cars with stickers all over the car saying to please be patient; student driver. I see the drivers being of all ages and races. All are well over 20 YOA. I have not figured out any rhyme or reason as to why they have these stickers on their car and how are they a student driver at say 40. I “guess” maybe an immigrant learning to drive, but just seems odd seeing so many vehicles with these stickers suddenly. If I ever see one park somewhere I park, I might ask them to satisfy my curiosity. I have Googled this in the past and found no answers.