# A DYK about Japanese car drivers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656 "2012-06-09T22:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/1 "2012-06-09T22:17:52Z")
I learned something today. Specifically, in Japan elderly drivers have to display a sticker on their car, called a [Koreisha mark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreisha_mark). This helps everyone else know the driver is potentially a liability. There are other marks too, including ones for hard of hearing, disabled, and inexperienced driver. Not a bad idea imo. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/2 "2012-06-09T22:35:58Z")
Oh, we got stuff like that here, too. When I see idiots with huge pit-bull stickers on the _windows_, excessive Ron Paul or Sarah Palin stuff, dents on every corner of the car, its a clear indication I need to _stay the hell away!_ ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/3 "2012-06-09T22:51:38Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Oh, we got stuff like that here, too. > > When I see idiots with huge pit-bull stickers on the _windows_, excessive Ron Paul or Sarah Palin stuff, dents on every corner of the car, its a clear indication I need to _stay the hell away!_ Or that sticker I saw once and only once, “I’m a **Libertarian** and I\*\* VOTE!\*\*” Unsurprisingly it was on beat-to-hell pickup truck. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/4 "2012-06-09T22:54:26Z")
Wow, driving while Asian AND old? Stay very far away! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/5 "2012-06-09T22:56:14Z")
Is it appropriate make jokes about Asians and driving in this thread? Cause I have a couple. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/6 "2012-06-09T23:17:42Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > Is it appropriate make jokes about Asians and driving in this thread? > > Cause I have a couple. I say yes! And those jokes, while inappropriate and based on stereotypes…exist for a reason. I have seen some really…interesting situations involving elderly and/or Asian drivers in my years of driving. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/7 "2012-06-09T23:44:56Z")
Anyone with a Jesus-related vanity plate or a Lexus SUV is a terrible driver. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/8 "2012-06-09T23:53:13Z")
Old men in late model Corvettes are the model of restraint. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/9 "2012-06-10T03:35:47Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Old men in late model Corvettes are the model of restraint. These people piss me off! They are probably fulfilling a boyhood dream of buying a racy sports car, they can’t afford it (or don’t think to get it) until they’re like 60, and then they never drive it over 40 mph! Just buy a horse and buggy, old man! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dyk-about-japanese-car-drivers/624656/10 "2012-06-10T05:18:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > These people piss me off! …, and then they never drive it over 40 mph! There are a couple of guys that _exactly_ match this around here. Both have the absolute shiz-nit Z-what-the-fuck Corvette (one is blue with red/white racing stripes, the other is comp orange) and they tool around in the left lane about 6 miles under the speed limit, and sit so low and are so zoned out that they never see me up thier ass, and never move over. I regularly blow past them in (unfortunatly, in the right lane) my '71 2002, or my old pickup, or my fuciking bicycle for Christs sake! I swear, there should be a test (other than $$) for buying decent cars! 😃