I was already thirty when I got my license.

For me it is not the vehicle, it is the people. Some random person I never met sitting next to me, talking to me while I am driving does not compute well with me. Unsafe for everybody.

I was good until moved to a place with poor public transport, so finally took the test and passed.

I think playing video games with decent vehicle dynamics where I could be driving and talking to and with people online helped me with that. Took me a while to just start to talk online, but did not wreck any actual vehicles during that "driving training" either. Especially with parallel parking.

Then I practiced on an empty parking lot. A lot.

Cleaning boot threads, opening boxes and paint cans, removing stickers and labels, cleared gunk out off a bathroom drain, attached to a cord and got some lures off some trees, and when just walking around and I see anything on the ground like "oh what is that" I use the tool instead of sticking my fingers in it.