page_title: Newly licensed driver plate
section_title: Similar plates
hierarchical_section_title: Newly licensed driver plate / Similar plates
caption_attribution_description: English: German driving school plate
context_page_description: An L-plate is a square plate bearing a sans-serif letter L, for learner, which must be affixed to the front and/or back of a vehicle in many countries if its driver is a learner under instruction, or a motorcycle rider with provisional entitlement to ride restricted motorcycles.
context_section_description: Elsewhere in the world, varying designs are used. In Germany, a usually red plate displaying the word Fahrschule (driving school) is placed on the vehicles during instruction. In Sweden, the plate is green or red (for driving schools)  with the text Övningskör (driving practice). In Czechoslovakia, a white L on a blue field, similar to the Swiss one, had been used, but many driving schools have stopped using them recently, instead tagging their cars with the word "Autoškola" ("car school"). In Italy, driving schools' cars are tagged with the words "Scuola guida" (driving school), and private cars with beginner drivers are tagged with a "P" capital letter: both signs are black on white reflective background. In Finland, a white triangle (equilateral with 16–25 cm sides) is used by driving schools' cars. Between 1972–1996, new drivers were limited to only drive up to 80 km/h (50 mph) in the first year, and had to use a yellow round "80" plaque (colloquially kahdeksankympin lätkä) in rear window or as a sticker on back of the cars. Today, plaques like this are used only by cars that are technically restricted to 80 km/h.
caption: German driving school plate
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