I've been driving here daily since 2000. Up until about five years ago, about 60kkm a year. I think the driving and drivers, and traffic has improved significantly.
I cannot speak for other countries, but I know that in the US, we grew up driving. You're on your dad's lap when you're 10 or 12, and by 14 doing a bit of driving in secluded areas. At 15 1/2 years, we got a permit, and at 16 a license. Middle/working class kids got jobs and bought cars or motorcycles, or their parents bought them cars while still in high school.
We also packed ten kids in the back of pickups for a ride to the beach or the drive in, and plenty of kids had minibikes, go-carts and/or motorcycles long before we had licenses, so all the outrage from the condescending a-holes gets a little tiresome. I know a lot more kids that died or had their lives ruined due to drugs and or alcohol than I do from road accidents, but I do not hear anyone up in arms about the bars or the proliferation of weed shops.
People here do not seem to start driving here until they are 25, if ever.