American drivers licenses come out of crackerjack boxes anyway. What we consider a driving test wouldn’t even get you a learners permit in Europe. Might as well skip em.
I don’t know what they’re like now, but the guy who gave me my road test many, many years ago was infamous in three counties for being a stickler. I knew/know people he flunked multiple times.
Yet you can get a permit to drive in another country by just showing your U.S. driver's license. Back in 2006, when I traveled with my son to Brussels so we could rent a car, and drive over the border into Holland to visit the village my father had been born in, we were both able to get permits to drive in Belgium and Holland via AAA's travel services.