The Germans and all European countries actually have a driver's test that's worthashit. Driver License tests here are a JOKE. Cops give tickets mostly to meet revenue quotas, and ignore the people who cause accidents for the most part, driving at or below speed limits in the left lane, STOPPING to merge onto highways and of course the favorite around here, people ignoring yellow lights.
The stuff in red accounts for about 95% of dumb$hit stuff that American drivers pull. If you did either of those in Germany you'd have everyone on the road honking and flashing their lights at you, they give immediate negative feedback when another driver does something stupid. Here we just pile up behind them while they poke along in the left lane with 20 cars stacked behind them. It costs about $3000 and a long time to get a Germany drivers license, I'm not sure I want that here. People are people and I'm not convinced that German drivers are really any better than American drivers, they're just not allowed to do the two stupid things mentioned above and that would fix most of the problems here. Teaching people in driver's ed that the left lane is for passing ONLY along with meaningful laws against impeding the flow of traffic and aggressive enforcement of them would fix a lot. You're in the left lane impeding the flow of traffic---$200 fine. Instead our cops would rather write tickets for doing 45 in a 35 zone.
