It's like that in America because it has to be. If you required real driving skill from American drivers just to get a license, most of them would fail. It wo

It's like that in America because it has to be. If you required real driving skill from American drivers just to get a license, most of them would fail. It works in some other countries because people there are able to live without a car, and having a car is a luxury. In America, it's a requirement for basic survival in most places because America decided decades ago that it wanted things to be that way, and built everything with that basic assumption. You can't expect good competency in something like driving from 99% of the public; you're just not going to get it, no matter what it is.