You're right. Good reason for that. Germans are good drivers for the most part. They were when I was there some years back. They don't mess around on the open road. I learned real quick, if you're not traveling in excess of 90+ mph, you do not get in the #1 lane, (Far left) on an open autobahn. Otherwise you'll have a Mercedes bearing down on you at 120 mph and they'll light up anyone stupid enough to do that with their racks of driving/fog lamps and then stand on their tuned horns.
But when they do have collisions, they can resemble aircraft crash scenes.
Yeah, their drivers ed makes ours look like a joke. They have annual vehicle inspections that check for serviceability/safety instead of just emissions. And their Polizei actually enforce traffic laws.