My impression is that driving education in the US is rather lacking overall, though it's of course not federalized, so there are probably fifty shades of deficiency. (That being said many driving schools here suck as well, though that's mostly a money drain for the driving students; 40 % or so failure rate in the practical exam).

I've got a British driving license and an American driving license. The British driving license was hard work. The American driving license involved little more than proving I could make the car go forwards and that I had a pulse.

There's really a 40% failure rate? That's insane given how easy it is to pass the test.

I remembered it wrong, it's 36 % for the theoretical and 28 % for the practical exam.

https://www.kba.de/DE/Statistik/Kraftfahrer/Fahrerlaubnisse/...

I don't even care about the cyclists[1]; I'll survive being hit by them }:-)>. It's the other motorized traffic I'm worried about!

[1] I actually do. Maybe it'll be me someday. But for the sake of argument let's pretend.