Beware the green T: This new sticker signals a doubtful driver

Unofficial plate is to let other road users know that a driver is unfamiliar with the area

I still don’t know howI feel about the T-plate. The brainchild of Scottish hotelier Robert Marshall, this is a sticker bearing a large green ‘T’ (and a smaller ‘Tourist’ postscript) that visitors can apply to the back of their car, just like learners do with a red L-plate and new drivers sometimes do with a green L- or P-plate.
The short of it is that it’s meant to let other road users know that a driver is unfamiliar with the area, perhaps the car and even rules or local driving habits too. On the face of it, this thoughtful, simple idea seems like – probably is – a good one. 
Marshall told the BBC that he was “stressed out of my head” during an “awful” driving experience on holiday in Tenerife and just wanted a way to let other road users know that he was a tourist, so that they would give him a bit of patience and slack, like we tend to do for learners. Once back home in Scotland, he starte