Practice Makes Imperfect
Celebrate your brand new Monday with a brand new comic!
This one features an element of driver’s education that may not be used worldwide, I guess. The red “L” sign should hopefully make sense to most readers, though! (?)
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Poor thing.
(Do thoes signs exist outside of the UK?)
We have ’em here in Norway – and several other European countries, apparently. This is quite interesting to me, though. Usually I tend to go for American signs/symbols in my comics (Related: See the crescent moon on the outhouse door in the previous comic. The Norwegian variant is actually a heart shape.) but this one wouldn’t really work with a huge “STUDENT DRIVER” sign on the back of the robot.
Just think of this comic as (for once) exclusively made for my UK/EU demographic. :)
They exist in much of Canada too.
Not sure what part of canada you are from??
British Columbia has em for sure.
From the US here, and I had no clue what the sign might mean until I read the alt-text. My first thought was “Loser?”, like a “kick-me” sign.
Good comic though!
I assume that’s a student driver sign?
In USA they literally say “STUDENT DRIVER” on them, and only Driver’s Ed. cars have them. Kids practicing with their parents won’t have any particular signage in most states.
We use it here in Spain, but the L comes white inside a green square. I assume it’s used in all Europe and our means Learner, so it’s not really difficult to guess its meaning…
Nice one!
In Brazil the entire car is painted signaling that the car is from a driver school.
In Alberta (Canada) we have “GDL” on our drivers license, nothing on the car at all showing you’re a new driver.
We also have a lot of awful drivers.
Here in Saskatchewan (next door to Alberta) we also have a graduated licensing program that includes nothing on the car, just notes on the driver’s license. But, on the other side in British Columbia, the L is used.
Some learner’s place the L in non-standard orientations (at an angle, or sideways, or upside-down), because that looks “cool”. I saw that most often on ridiculously modified cars, with light effects, lowered suspension, silly paint, etc., which made the occassional boring-grey-commuter-car (e.g. Toyota Camry) with an “extreme” L on it that much funnier.
“I’m learning to drive mom’s car, but I’m still hardcore!”
We have the letter T here in Hungary arrived from “Tanuló vezetÅ‘” which translates to student driver (or learning driver if you wish) but I still got it without google help and it was funny :)
They have L plates in Australia as well. Also, P plates, which are like L plates, only better.
In Australia (specifically, the state of New South Wales) we have a black L on yellow for Learner’s, a red P on white for Provisional 1, and a green P on white for Provisional 2.
We don’t have anything like that in Germany.
We do! There are signs on the rooftops!
(see for example here: http://www.schleidt-online.de/fahrschule/fahrschule_schleidt_480x360.jpg)
They’re saying “Fahrschule” (driving school).
In Canada they seem to be different for each province, in BC where I’m at we’ve got the red “L” for learner and the green “N” for new driver.
We have dinner plates.
I thought the giant L meant “loser”…
Germany`s got special markings on Cars used for driver training.
But neither is the big red L used, nor is it a legal practice to do “observed” driving in a standard car an an adult as observer.