Meaning of paper driver | Babel Free

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A person who has a driver's license but never drives.

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“But the average Japanese does not own a car (as an individual). I don't have the figures but someone told me that less than half of those of driving age do not own a car, moreso,^([sic]) of those who do have a license, a relatively small percentage of those with licenses own their own car, many are paper drivers.”

“There are people who surely should not drive. "Paper drivers" and at risk drivers should be recertified.”

“There are courses aimed at "Paper Drivers" people who get their license but never use it, I know people that have had their license for over 7 Years and never driven except for the tests”

“If a person in Japan identifies her/himself as a paper driver, no non-Japanese is likely to find the intelligibility of the term difficult at all, but probably most non-Japanese will have no idea of the comprehensibility or the interpretability of the term. Almost all non-Japanese need to be taught that a paper driver is one who holds a legal driver's license but does not consider her/himself competent as a driver and usually uses the license only as a means of identification when legally necessary.”

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