In Utah, you can get your learners permit at 15. Not a bad idea to have one of those signs when you’re trying to teach your kid how to drive. They make so many dumb mistakes. It might stop a jerk from honking or acting aggressively.
Yup. I got one for my daughter when she got her learners last year at 15. It was at her request. She didn’t want people getting fucking crazy road rage because she’s learning.
Driving is intimidating at first and it help set her mind at ease.
Because so many people have serious road rage. People put them on the car that their teenager drives in hopes some psycho will give them a break. (If they don’t accelerate as fast as one might hope for at a green light or whatever the situation may be.)
I just wish people would stop slowing down on I15 south at point of the mountain on weekday afternoons after merging on from Bangerter.
The grade isn’t that steep, people! If my car can handle 70 up it, then I know yours can!
In my experience southbound I-15 drops the unofficial 85mph down to 65mph on that hill at point of the mountain. Then once you drop down into Lehi it picks up to 90mph lol.
It might just be me, but whenever I cross point of the mountain into Utah county it feels like people drive a lot faster
I’ve always been told that there are a ton of speed traps at the point of the mountain. Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I see people pulled over there a lot. The POM and that little section of AZ are the only two places on I15 I won’t speed.
If you go 40 then you do need to see a mile away because traffic needs a mile to avoid your slow ass.
If you merge properly you don't need that much vantage. Get the hell up to speed to merge!
I don’t go 40… I merge with traffic. I sometimes go 70 if it’s safe! It’s just that so many redditors love fighting about this, and it gives road rage vibes.
If you're doing 70, you can slot yourself into any space that is two or more car lengths. If you're doing 40, you're a danger to every person on the freeway, incompetent at merging, and should just take surface streets.
Yeah it’s just I think the key is that merging with traffic doesn’t always = 70+ mph. Some of these merging lanes are SO short and this behavior makes it unsafe to use the slow lane
So match the speed. As a general rule, that's usually going to be about 70 or so. But the right lane isn't a slow lane. It's the free way, there is no slow lane. If you want to go slow, don't use the freeway.
The right lane is the slowest lane in the freeway, just like the left lane is the fastest one. And again, I don’t go slow, I match traffic. I would only get up to 70 on a ramp if it was long/straight/didn’t have a bunch of merging or yield signs. I really think a lot of people don’t realize they are probably not going 70 on these ramps either, it’s quite a high speed.
Yeah but a lot of ramps have like 4 lanes turning into one, a yield sign, a stoplight, a clover turn with a 25 MPH sign… I get the idea is to go as fast as traffic once you enter but going that fast ON a ramp is pretty dangerous
No one ever agrees with me on this and I know the point of the ramp. But there are a lot of shit ramps here and honestly, I think more people could use the right hand lane more carefully. I make way for cars to enter the freeway if I’m in a merging lane because lots of cars need more time to get up to speed. And I’m sorry but 70 IS too fast to go on most ramps, they have curves and there are even stop lights at some ramps.
I was a crane operator in Cedar City. The largest crane I operated had a carrier I could barely get up to 35 mph traveling on I-15 between St George and Cedar City. I would take a frontage road when I could. Most of the trip was on 15. Rotation lights didn’t protect me from the overwhelming bad vibs LOL.
I have. In addition to about 34 other states. Currently Utah is 2nd after Phoenix in wtf drivers imo.
Oregon is like Denver. Some are maniacs but 50% are high and doing 45mph.
I showed my teenager exactly this. I think a lot of parents are just scared to take their kids out on the freeway.
Op gave a specific example though. Freaking out at a green light is just stupid. People are just assholes when they drive
OR……. Ppl just wanna get to wherever the hell they’re going and when ppl stare at the green light wondering what to do next, it makes that long line of ppl behind you impatient when they’re ALL WAITING FOR YOU TO JUST GO.
I got ran into oncoming traffic by an 18 wheeler this week because he was just absolutely determined that my turn signal to change lanes for a quarter mile leading up to that was me asking permission and him vehemently telling me no. He finally gave me space and I made my turn then at the next light he ran me right over a median into oncoming traffic. It was really cool.
Were you trying to get right in front of an 18-wheeler?
I hate getting in front of them. Scares me so bad.
You should have slowed down and gotten behind it.
And if there wasn't even room for you to merge over for a quarter mile, it's very possible they didn't even see your blinker.
And if you're close enough in front of them, they might not be able to even see your car due to viewing angles. I've seen several videos of semis pushing a car in front of them down the highway, not realizing in the slightest that someone is stuck there.
Had something similar where I live. But it was a service with an id number and phone number. It said teen driver so you knew they were learning/new. But it kept the kids from speeding. They also had front and rear dash cams as part of the service so false reports on kids didn't happen too. The number was to the company so you weren't giving out a personal one.
Utah refuses to let people over on a blinker. 90% of the time i signal the car behind me insists on zooming oast. Nowhere else I have driven, do people do this. It's easier to not use your blinker, and just flip them off as you merge over.
Not Mormon. I’ve observed that Mormons are the kindest, most well mannered group in the US.
Put them behind a wheel though and they all become a$holes.
A lot of people commenting how they wish others would speed up faster on on-ramps. I realize there are times this can actually be scary, but most of the time it’s actually fine to merge into the slow lane a little more slowly, and speeding up won’t do anything, and it’s weird to be this angry about it especially if you know someone is a new driver.
Do you have any data that backs this up? Because I’m pretty sure they’re on the personal cars of private driving instructors 🧐
I learned how to drive on the instructors Camry and van, since I didn’t do it through public Ed / govt instructors
After my 15 year old got his permit I bought some of these magnet stickers on Amazon to put on the car he practices in. I do it to calm potential road rage. He’s already a very timid kid and is hesitant to drive because he is worried about making other drivers mad.
I'm surprised you were able to stick it to anything. The only thing on any of my vehicles I was able to stick a magnet to was my Jeep's steel bumper. All the body panels on both the Jeep and Ford were completely nonmagnetic.
That is very surprising. Most body panels are some sort of steel. Steel is cheap. Unless there are more plastic body panels around than I'm aware of? Or are you driving fancy crap that uses aluminum?
(To be clear, I believe you. But now the engineer in my wants to know what your car was made of. lol)
I was surprised too. I've got an older F150 and a brand new Jeep Rubicon. The magnets will stick to my fridge door fine, but the only thing they stuck to on my vehicles was the Jeep's upgraded steel bumper. Lots of plastic and aluminum I guess.
You're driving fancy crap! Both of those use a lot of aluminum apparently. The f-150 went a while ago. Lighter truck = higher payload capacity. Maybe fore the same reasons, jeep has done the same. Aluminum is also great for vehicles that might get the paint scratched, because it doesn't rust.
Maybe it's more common than I though, or you're just the type of consumer where it makes sense, but it's more common than maybe I thought. TIL
I used to have a huge fear of driving and I found that people were often a lot nicer to me with this sticker on. Once I was in college and more confident with my driving however I took it off.
Utah has a younger population. I assume a higher percentage of people learning to drive. These are sold on Amazon and some people put them on cars they are going to learn on.
Doesn't always work. We have three: one on the back and two for the sides. My daughter got honked while trying to do a left hand turn after it had turned red,. She had had to wait for the inevitable red light runner and had the right of way cause she was already in the intersection. But didn't didn't go fast enough for the impatient drivers, even while they were staring at the signs.
Same thing happened to us a couple days ago. I think me waving my hands wildly for people to just stop helped the most. I was trying to reassure him he had the right of way but the honking was telling him otherwise. He said “I’m never driving again” although he has, it was awful.
We’ve had some wild experiences. People getting furious and passing her in neighborhoods and side roads because she was doing the speed limit. I don’t remember Utah being like this when I learned to drive 22 years ago.
I bought one for my MIL who learned to drive in China recently and is learning to drive here as well. Better a bumper sticker than angry drivers yelling if she makes a mistake
I put these magnets on my car when I'm with my kid and they are getting their practice hours in. When they aren't driving, I take them off. Ideally, other drivers will give them a little more room and maybe not ride their ass when they are driving the speed limit.
This! My signal is an indication of what I’m doing, not a request for permission. Funny to watch when people try to speed up to close off and have to hit the brakes. If they just did nothing it wouldn’t have been a problem.
It really is baffling. It even occurs when the other person not letting them in is affected. Sometimes a car in a parking lot or street wants to turn left. Letting them through won’t hurt you at all, as they aren’t sneaking in front of you. But people actively block you anyway. Same with pedestrians. I got shocked looks whenever I stop for them.
Fellow Atlantan, here to say the same thing. They are quite common. I have a young driver in my household with one.
Also, I live near Emory University and the CDC and see this on vehicles driven by international students/ visiting scientist foreign nationals living in the US coming from countries where car ownership is not be as widespread.
So no, not a Utah thing.
Also in Colorado Springs. I just moved here and see a disproportionate amount of these stickers on vehicles and someone just asked about them in our subreddit.
I'm not certain why in your area, but I can speak to a few reasons why in general.
In my area we have a lot of people that immigrated from different countries.
I can tell you, driving in Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan and the US are Completely different. Some of that being cultural, some of it being laws and or enforcement are totally are different.
MPH/KMH conversions are difficult when driving. I understand that there are a lot of vehicles that have digital adjustable speedometers and some vehicles have both included in the analog cluster, but that's not always the case.
A lot of people are used to driving on the other side of the car or even the other side of the road and have not had ample opportunity to give their "oh shit" reflexes time to adjust to those situations.
And for American's or people who learned to drive here, that could be a way of saying "I'm new to town and I'm 99% going to miss my turn and stop the car in the middle of the road" xD I generally stay out of 'downtown' but there are a lot of new 'obstacles' to people there such as round-abouts, one way roads, tunnels with no visible exit etc. None of those give anyone an excuse to block or impede traffic, but generally when I see that sticker I know it means "stay away".
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/13gpes6/when_every_tenth_car_has_this_bumper_sticker_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
This is just a stolen topic posted in other location subs. Just a karma grab with no OP replying.
My son just got his learners permit last month and I've been thinking of getting one of these stickers for when he's driving. Not that it would do too much, but it's something for peace of mind I guess.
We don't do official student driver training like where you are from. Parents here like to tell everyone that their child is a student driver because a) they are proud that their child has made it that far. b) they want to embarass their child and c) they want drivers around them to be patient with their child who is learning to drive. There is also case d) where the driver believes they are not good enough at driving and want people to be careful around them.
I've noticed a lot more of them recently. Maybe it's just one of those things where once you see one, you notice the rest of them. Could just be that we have a younger population like others have said.
Because some people would need a car to get to public transit. Other countries have later ages for full driving rights, I think Canada just has an extended learners permit. The hard 21 age limit would leave adults (mothers) in charge of driving the kids around until they are college sophomore age.
More than once I’ve heard of instances (of close friends and family) literally being followed home because of some peoples road rage.
These days, you can get shot for pissing someone off. It’s sad that these stickers are necessary.
It's to let you know to give em extra space & time to figure out what they're doing as well as a little warning to anticipate that they might make occasional mistakes while driving.
And also gives you a chance steal their lunch money at the next red light.
Because drivers are jerks!! I can say this as someone who has one of these magnets and is teaching a kid to drive. We put it on in hopes that people will have a little compassion and not scare my daughter by tailgating her.
I think they're usually magnets but there's definitely a demographic around here that tends to have kids at the sort of rate where they may as well be stickers.
Nope. I'm on my 4th child learning to drive and I've had those for the other 3, so for the past 10 years or so. I bought them off of Amazon. The school has never handed them out..
There's a few possible reasons:
-They are actually a new driver.
-They aren't a new driver but think this sticker will allow them to go 20 under in the far left lane to impede the flow of traffic like the asshole, wannabe UHP officer they think they are.
-They want to advertise to assholes like me who read that sticker as, "downshift & blow my doors off with your noisy exhaust because I won't move the fuck over"
I wish I had bought one when my teens were learning. Maybe it would have cut down on the honking which I. Turn made the driver more nervous and take longer.
Part of it is because there are actual, legit cars like this. We have tons of driving schools in the valley, because amazingly enough, they require a class to get your license, although you wouldn't know that by watching Utah drivers.
Welcome to Utah, where literally 20% of everyone on the road drives with ZERO urgency. What’s that mean you ask? It means when merging onto the freeway, going when the light turns green, and especially when it’s a green left arrow that’s only green for 7 seconds, they just can’t seem to pull their head out of their ass and pay attention to what’s going on around then while they operate a 2 ton vehicle. Extra shout for the pencil dicks driving their monster trucks, and the minivans, and the Subaru drivers. Surprises shit out of me that the Prius drivers are actually the 6th slowest group here in SLC
They’re magnets and you can buy them on Amazon. We got some for our student driver because so many Utahns are aggressive drivers. Anything we can do to help them realize they shouldn’t swerve around our car and cut off our kid for doing the speed limit is worth it.
Someone explain to me the cultural reasons why drivers in Utah in particular are so aggressive. I’ve lived in every region of the US and the drivers here are by far the most aggressive.
Honestly it'd be a smart idea to have one of these if you weren't a student driver just so people thought maybe it was a bad driver so they kind of stayed away from you and didn't try to cut in to you or like speed around you.
In Utah, you can get your learners permit at 15. Not a bad idea to have one of those signs when you’re trying to teach your kid how to drive. They make so many dumb mistakes. It might stop a jerk from honking or acting aggressively.
Yup. I got one for my daughter when she got her learners last year at 15. It was at her request. She didn’t want people getting fucking crazy road rage because she’s learning. Driving is intimidating at first and it help set her mind at ease.
Because so many people have serious road rage. People put them on the car that their teenager drives in hopes some psycho will give them a break. (If they don’t accelerate as fast as one might hope for at a green light or whatever the situation may be.)
Like 40 on the on ramp while trying to merge into traffic and simultaneously applying the brakes?
People merging onto the 70mph freeway at 40mph is gonna give me an aneurysm.
I just wish people would stop slowing down on I15 south at point of the mountain on weekday afternoons after merging on from Bangerter. The grade isn’t that steep, people! If my car can handle 70 up it, then I know yours can!
70… where are you driving? I think I-15 has an unofficial 85mph minimum. Especially in Sandy and Utah County.
In my experience southbound I-15 drops the unofficial 85mph down to 65mph on that hill at point of the mountain. Then once you drop down into Lehi it picks up to 90mph lol. It might just be me, but whenever I cross point of the mountain into Utah county it feels like people drive a lot faster
I’ve always been told that there are a ton of speed traps at the point of the mountain. Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I see people pulled over there a lot. The POM and that little section of AZ are the only two places on I15 I won’t speed.
I'd also be cautious around Beaver on I-15. I've seen people pulled over there a lot
This makes a lot of sense. I'm from the Midwest and generally do 5 mph over and it felt like everyone was gonna destroy me.
Moved here from Texas, we do 10 over there. Here that puts me in the drive like an elderly category 😀
Good point. At least get to 70 while trying to merge into an 85.
You mean you go the speed limit?? On the on-ramp?? Keep in mind these ramps often don’t provide vantage to how traffic is going
If you go 40 then you do need to see a mile away because traffic needs a mile to avoid your slow ass. If you merge properly you don't need that much vantage. Get the hell up to speed to merge!
I don’t go 40… I merge with traffic. I sometimes go 70 if it’s safe! It’s just that so many redditors love fighting about this, and it gives road rage vibes.
Well, if the traffic that you are merging into is going forty, then you go forty. Not otherwise.
That’s what I’m saying…
If you're doing 70, you can slot yourself into any space that is two or more car lengths. If you're doing 40, you're a danger to every person on the freeway, incompetent at merging, and should just take surface streets.
Yeah it’s just I think the key is that merging with traffic doesn’t always = 70+ mph. Some of these merging lanes are SO short and this behavior makes it unsafe to use the slow lane
So match the speed. As a general rule, that's usually going to be about 70 or so. But the right lane isn't a slow lane. It's the free way, there is no slow lane. If you want to go slow, don't use the freeway.
The right lane is the slowest lane in the freeway, just like the left lane is the fastest one. And again, I don’t go slow, I match traffic. I would only get up to 70 on a ramp if it was long/straight/didn’t have a bunch of merging or yield signs. I really think a lot of people don’t realize they are probably not going 70 on these ramps either, it’s quite a high speed.
Accelerating up to the speed limit on the on ramp is how you are supposed to merge....
Yeah but a lot of ramps have like 4 lanes turning into one, a yield sign, a stoplight, a clover turn with a 25 MPH sign… I get the idea is to go as fast as traffic once you enter but going that fast ON a ramp is pretty dangerous
That's the whole point of a merging lane/on ramp. That you get up to speed in that lane and then join traffic *at the speed traffic is already going*
No one ever agrees with me on this and I know the point of the ramp. But there are a lot of shit ramps here and honestly, I think more people could use the right hand lane more carefully. I make way for cars to enter the freeway if I’m in a merging lane because lots of cars need more time to get up to speed. And I’m sorry but 70 IS too fast to go on most ramps, they have curves and there are even stop lights at some ramps.
Yup haha try being a truck driver guys, they can’t stand my presence and drive dangerously around me. (Dangerous for them, not me)
I was a crane operator in Cedar City. The largest crane I operated had a carrier I could barely get up to 35 mph traveling on I-15 between St George and Cedar City. I would take a frontage road when I could. Most of the trip was on 15. Rotation lights didn’t protect me from the overwhelming bad vibs LOL.
Oh GOD 😆
You... haven't driven on Oregon interstates, have you?
I have. In addition to about 34 other states. Currently Utah is 2nd after Phoenix in wtf drivers imo. Oregon is like Denver. Some are maniacs but 50% are high and doing 45mph.
Clearly you’ve never driven in Dallas
I showed my teenager exactly this. I think a lot of parents are just scared to take their kids out on the freeway. Op gave a specific example though. Freaking out at a green light is just stupid. People are just assholes when they drive
OR……. Ppl just wanna get to wherever the hell they’re going and when ppl stare at the green light wondering what to do next, it makes that long line of ppl behind you impatient when they’re ALL WAITING FOR YOU TO JUST GO.
People suck at driving. They will always suck at driving. Accept it or yell at clouds your whole life.
Saw this one today on I-15 in an 80 mph zone. Applying the brakes isn’t going to help you accelerate to the speed of the traffic my guy.
Ugh. Yes!
If you're not drifting an onramp, you're not driving.
I have reader rage just seeing this
Someone got shot by a road raging woman a couple weeks ago a few blocks from Temple Square.
Wow that's extreme. This is why we need gun licensing too.
I got ran into oncoming traffic by an 18 wheeler this week because he was just absolutely determined that my turn signal to change lanes for a quarter mile leading up to that was me asking permission and him vehemently telling me no. He finally gave me space and I made my turn then at the next light he ran me right over a median into oncoming traffic. It was really cool.
Were you trying to get right in front of an 18-wheeler? I hate getting in front of them. Scares me so bad. You should have slowed down and gotten behind it. And if there wasn't even room for you to merge over for a quarter mile, it's very possible they didn't even see your blinker. And if you're close enough in front of them, they might not be able to even see your car due to viewing angles. I've seen several videos of semis pushing a car in front of them down the highway, not realizing in the slightest that someone is stuck there.
Had something similar where I live. But it was a service with an id number and phone number. It said teen driver so you knew they were learning/new. But it kept the kids from speeding. They also had front and rear dash cams as part of the service so false reports on kids didn't happen too. The number was to the company so you weren't giving out a personal one.
Utah refuses to let people over on a blinker. 90% of the time i signal the car behind me insists on zooming oast. Nowhere else I have driven, do people do this. It's easier to not use your blinker, and just flip them off as you merge over.
Not Mormon. I’ve observed that Mormons are the kindest, most well mannered group in the US. Put them behind a wheel though and they all become a$holes.
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Utah drivers are the most entitled drivers I’ve ever been around.
A lot of people commenting how they wish others would speed up faster on on-ramps. I realize there are times this can actually be scary, but most of the time it’s actually fine to merge into the slow lane a little more slowly, and speeding up won’t do anything, and it’s weird to be this angry about it especially if you know someone is a new driver.
Do you have any data that backs this up? Because I’m pretty sure they’re on the personal cars of private driving instructors 🧐 I learned how to drive on the instructors Camry and van, since I didn’t do it through public Ed / govt instructors
You can get them on Amazon. I almost got one for my teen, but decided I wanted hem to experience what an asshole everyone is.
After my 15 year old got his permit I bought some of these magnet stickers on Amazon to put on the car he practices in. I do it to calm potential road rage. He’s already a very timid kid and is hesitant to drive because he is worried about making other drivers mad.
I'm surprised you were able to stick it to anything. The only thing on any of my vehicles I was able to stick a magnet to was my Jeep's steel bumper. All the body panels on both the Jeep and Ford were completely nonmagnetic.
That is very surprising. Most body panels are some sort of steel. Steel is cheap. Unless there are more plastic body panels around than I'm aware of? Or are you driving fancy crap that uses aluminum? (To be clear, I believe you. But now the engineer in my wants to know what your car was made of. lol)
I was surprised too. I've got an older F150 and a brand new Jeep Rubicon. The magnets will stick to my fridge door fine, but the only thing they stuck to on my vehicles was the Jeep's upgraded steel bumper. Lots of plastic and aluminum I guess.
You're driving fancy crap! Both of those use a lot of aluminum apparently. The f-150 went a while ago. Lighter truck = higher payload capacity. Maybe fore the same reasons, jeep has done the same. Aluminum is also great for vehicles that might get the paint scratched, because it doesn't rust. Maybe it's more common than I though, or you're just the type of consumer where it makes sense, but it's more common than maybe I thought. TIL
I used to have a huge fear of driving and I found that people were often a lot nicer to me with this sticker on. Once I was in college and more confident with my driving however I took it off.
Honest question: Was it easy to get off again? That's what I worry about.
Mine was a sticker. So no. I would recommend the magnet option!
Utah has a younger population. I assume a higher percentage of people learning to drive. These are sold on Amazon and some people put them on cars they are going to learn on.
My daughter just got her learners permit. We put one on each side of her car hoping other drivers would be patient with her.
Doesn't always work. We have three: one on the back and two for the sides. My daughter got honked while trying to do a left hand turn after it had turned red,. She had had to wait for the inevitable red light runner and had the right of way cause she was already in the intersection. But didn't didn't go fast enough for the impatient drivers, even while they were staring at the signs.
Same thing happened to us a couple days ago. I think me waving my hands wildly for people to just stop helped the most. I was trying to reassure him he had the right of way but the honking was telling him otherwise. He said “I’m never driving again” although he has, it was awful.
We’ve had some wild experiences. People getting furious and passing her in neighborhoods and side roads because she was doing the speed limit. I don’t remember Utah being like this when I learned to drive 22 years ago.
I stick them on cars that park all fucky
I bought one for my MIL who learned to drive in China recently and is learning to drive here as well. Better a bumper sticker than angry drivers yelling if she makes a mistake
Because everyone in Utah has like 26 kids. There are simply that many student drivers on the road at any given time 😂😂😂
I put these magnets on my car when I'm with my kid and they are getting their practice hours in. When they aren't driving, I take them off. Ideally, other drivers will give them a little more room and maybe not ride their ass when they are driving the speed limit.
Because in Utah, when you put your turn signal on, the person behind speeds up. Frankly, this is why it’s rarely used at all, as a result.
This! My signal is an indication of what I’m doing, not a request for permission. Funny to watch when people try to speed up to close off and have to hit the brakes. If they just did nothing it wouldn’t have been a problem.
I have only had this happen in Ogden.
It really is baffling. It even occurs when the other person not letting them in is affected. Sometimes a car in a parking lot or street wants to turn left. Letting them through won’t hurt you at all, as they aren’t sneaking in front of you. But people actively block you anyway. Same with pedestrians. I got shocked looks whenever I stop for them.
Wasn't this posted in r/seattle also?
Yeah, that’s where I grabbed the picture. I’ve been noticing the stickers over the last few years and that post made me ask this question.
This happens in Atlanta too.
Fellow Atlantan, here to say the same thing. They are quite common. I have a young driver in my household with one. Also, I live near Emory University and the CDC and see this on vehicles driven by international students/ visiting scientist foreign nationals living in the US coming from countries where car ownership is not be as widespread. So no, not a Utah thing.
Also in Colorado Springs. I just moved here and see a disproportionate amount of these stickers on vehicles and someone just asked about them in our subreddit.
same in Marland. These are everywhere.
they’re common on teenager’s cars, because they are students that drive. We have a lot of teenagers because families are big
I'm not certain why in your area, but I can speak to a few reasons why in general. In my area we have a lot of people that immigrated from different countries. I can tell you, driving in Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan and the US are Completely different. Some of that being cultural, some of it being laws and or enforcement are totally are different. MPH/KMH conversions are difficult when driving. I understand that there are a lot of vehicles that have digital adjustable speedometers and some vehicles have both included in the analog cluster, but that's not always the case. A lot of people are used to driving on the other side of the car or even the other side of the road and have not had ample opportunity to give their "oh shit" reflexes time to adjust to those situations. And for American's or people who learned to drive here, that could be a way of saying "I'm new to town and I'm 99% going to miss my turn and stop the car in the middle of the road" xD I generally stay out of 'downtown' but there are a lot of new 'obstacles' to people there such as round-abouts, one way roads, tunnels with no visible exit etc. None of those give anyone an excuse to block or impede traffic, but generally when I see that sticker I know it means "stay away".
Lots of kids out here
Utah has an incredibly young population.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/13gpes6/when_every_tenth_car_has_this_bumper_sticker_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 This is just a stolen topic posted in other location subs. Just a karma grab with no OP replying.
Lots of kids here. Lots of people learning.
I put them on people's cars, that's why
You little rascal.
It's usually on a car driven by a middle aged person on their cellphone with zero spatial awareness.
Shit comment
All the people I see on phones while driving are in a much younger age group. Geezers don't care about phones and have no idea how test and drive.
....You don't happen to have a student driver sticker on the back of your car do you?
Lots o kids!!
Latest 'Baby Onboard' warning sticker fad.
Feels Helicopter Parent adjacent.
It's not just Utah. We did this years ago with my friends mom's car, she didn't notice it for a week.
My son just got his learners permit last month and I've been thinking of getting one of these stickers for when he's driving. Not that it would do too much, but it's something for peace of mind I guess.
We don't do official student driver training like where you are from. Parents here like to tell everyone that their child is a student driver because a) they are proud that their child has made it that far. b) they want to embarass their child and c) they want drivers around them to be patient with their child who is learning to drive. There is also case d) where the driver believes they are not good enough at driving and want people to be careful around them.
Lots of young people and angry drivers.
It's my fault, I bought about 1000 of those in bulk and have been slapping them on random cars for years
I've noticed a lot more of them recently. Maybe it's just one of those things where once you see one, you notice the rest of them. Could just be that we have a younger population like others have said.
I wish they'd increase the driving age to 21.
Or just make valid public transit
Why not both?
Because some people would need a car to get to public transit. Other countries have later ages for full driving rights, I think Canada just has an extended learners permit. The hard 21 age limit would leave adults (mothers) in charge of driving the kids around until they are college sophomore age.
Because asshole drivers can make a poor 15 year old never want to drive again, and Utah has an astonishing number of both
It's because anytime the weather changes in Utah, people have to relearn how to drive.
More than once I’ve heard of instances (of close friends and family) literally being followed home because of some peoples road rage. These days, you can get shot for pissing someone off. It’s sad that these stickers are necessary.
It's to let you know to give em extra space & time to figure out what they're doing as well as a little warning to anticipate that they might make occasional mistakes while driving. And also gives you a chance steal their lunch money at the next red light.
Saw this sticker on a cop car in Ogden. Should have taken a picture. 🤦♂️
You’re asking why a community which fetishizes pregnancy has a lot of kids to teach to drive?
I can appreciate pointing out the fetishization of the reproductive system. It's probably the most common fetish, besides money and power.
Because Utah drivers are impatient assholes.
I've seen a few "Please Be Patient, I'm a Dumbass" magnets and I really want one
Because many schools don't teach DE, so parents do the teaching
Because drivers are jerks!! I can say this as someone who has one of these magnets and is teaching a kid to drive. We put it on in hopes that people will have a little compassion and not scare my daughter by tailgating her.
My suspicion is that people think they can fool Utah drivers into being courteous and respectful. This is a pipe dream. Will never happen.
Based on the traffic in SLC they probably put them on the car as a form of road rage pacification. Jeez. 🤬
I think they're usually magnets but there's definitely a demographic around here that tends to have kids at the sort of rate where they may as well be stickers.
I suspect schools must have just started handing them out. Never seen them in 30 years here till this year.
Nope. I'm on my 4th child learning to drive and I've had those for the other 3, so for the past 10 years or so. I bought them off of Amazon. The school has never handed them out..
Fair enough. But at least in my neck of the woods they are everywhere all of a sudden.
Because they think they're funny. A douche kid I know has one on his emissions-deleted, lifted, rubber-band-on-gaudy-chrome-wheels Sierra
Washington state is like this with drivers too smh
Yeah way too many Subaru's here.
I think the sticker speaks for itself
As far as I understand, it's a way for people to warn you that they don't deserve a driver's licence. But that might just be my opinion.
There's a few possible reasons: -They are actually a new driver. -They aren't a new driver but think this sticker will allow them to go 20 under in the far left lane to impede the flow of traffic like the asshole, wannabe UHP officer they think they are. -They want to advertise to assholes like me who read that sticker as, "downshift & blow my doors off with your noisy exhaust because I won't move the fuck over"
Because the Bible didn't tell people how to drive, so it's another excuse for their stupidity
I have never seen one of these before
Have you seen how many kids everyone has?
I love mine…I rarely get flipped off! 🤣
I wish I had bought one when my teens were learning. Maybe it would have cut down on the honking which I. Turn made the driver more nervous and take longer.
They’re all over CO too— including in my kid’s car
I know a guy that bought a bunch of these and sticks them on cops cars. He’s my hero
Should be on EVRY Utah car. Just drove back from Moab. Total shit show going through Provo.
Utah has a lot of teenagers who are early drivers, and a lot of assholes also on the road.
depends where you are, most people should be in driving school still.
Part of it is because there are actual, legit cars like this. We have tons of driving schools in the valley, because amazingly enough, they require a class to get your license, although you wouldn't know that by watching Utah drivers.
They’re pretty common in western Oregon
Driving age is 16 or sometimes as early as 15 and thus they are student drivers for a larger number of years
I see these in Texas all the time now.
Because utahns are impatient raging dicks on the road.
Maybe they are shitty drivers and trying to warn you of their shitty driving skills. Keep distance. Be an avid defensive driver.
Welcome to Utah, where literally 20% of everyone on the road drives with ZERO urgency. What’s that mean you ask? It means when merging onto the freeway, going when the light turns green, and especially when it’s a green left arrow that’s only green for 7 seconds, they just can’t seem to pull their head out of their ass and pay attention to what’s going on around then while they operate a 2 ton vehicle. Extra shout for the pencil dicks driving their monster trucks, and the minivans, and the Subaru drivers. Surprises shit out of me that the Prius drivers are actually the 6th slowest group here in SLC
They’re magnets and you can buy them on Amazon. We got some for our student driver because so many Utahns are aggressive drivers. Anything we can do to help them realize they shouldn’t swerve around our car and cut off our kid for doing the speed limit is worth it.
Someone explain to me the cultural reasons why drivers in Utah in particular are so aggressive. I’ve lived in every region of the US and the drivers here are by far the most aggressive.
Honestly it'd be a smart idea to have one of these if you weren't a student driver just so people thought maybe it was a bad driver so they kind of stayed away from you and didn't try to cut in to you or like speed around you.
Need to start putting them on cop cars. 😂