There's definitely an in-between period where you want an instructor's car. In my case, Missouri, USA, I started with my father on our property, slow and maneu

There's definitely an in-between period where you want an instructor's car. In my case, Missouri, USA, I started with my father on our property, slow and maneuvering between trees (also teaching me how to use a manual transmission), then I did the usual, free (at least back in the late '70s), and not resource constrained driver's ed in high school, then I got a learner's permit and drove on the streets for some time with my father in the passenger side to get the level of experience we thought necessary (e.g. driving to high school each morning).