No trip to Oahu would be complete for me without a visit to @mooneyes Hawaii. What’s better than a car accessories shop? A car accessories shop run with Aloha. This store feels like your walking into a good friends private collection of cool stuff. It’s a store located on the second story of an office/strip mall type building. It’s tight, stuff covers every surface and rack and crashes up the walls. Art pieces, toys, helmets, skate boards. From tissue box covers to stickers. Stuffed animals to neon signs. Your eyes dart from place to place there’s so much stuff and it’s all so cool. Man I love this place. Yes most stuff is Mooneyes branded or Mooneyes collaborations but there’s also before mentioned art pieces and lots of automotive related cool stuff from Japan. And it was one of those Japanese automotive culture finds that inspired this post.
I’m sure we’ve all seen the chevron stickier before. I know I have. I’d seen these stickers/magnets on cars plenty of times before but had no idea what they were for. I thought they must be some kind of branding or area specific type support or a parking pass maybe? Turns out Japan has a safety campaign based on the growth of plants where a displayed chevron indicates a budding leaf, your new, in experienced. It asks folks to be patient and mindful as you might do something unexpected. The larger clover is an indication of an elderly driver, basically the same sentiment as the inexperienced driver but on the other end of the age scale.
I gotta say I like this idea, it’s a magnet so not permanent. It’s a discrete indicator politely hovering everyone a heads up. A kind of automatic “hey sorry about that mistake I’m old, or I’m not sure what I’m doing yet” I don’t know if this is a voluntary thing or if there’s age or experience levels or time frames that denote when you get each indicator. But I’m for it. I think if someone cut me off and I saw the sign I’d be like, “oh ok, I was new once or well if I’m lucky I’ll be old one day and I hope folks are patient with me”
I’d like this practice even more if it was elective. Again im not sure what the rules or how official the program is. But its a nice idea and one I’d be ok with seeing here in the states. what do you think? Would seeing an indicator like this on an offending vehicle ease the pain of the offense?
James
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