quicko: p-platers

I can't claim to know the specifics of it, but in Australia the road to a driver's license includes stops at both L and P plates (hence, P-platers). L is learner's and P is provisional (not perilous). They don't call anything temps. And you actually see a good number of cars with P-plates -- it's a very obvious P affixed to the side of the license plate. I thought about taking a picture but didn't want to get any P-plater in a snit ...