I’m 25 and I don’t have a drivers license. I mean, I’ve never really felt the need to go and get one. Public transport is usually the fastest option where I live, and it takes a lot less responsibility to use it.
But most people would still prefer driving, rather than using the public T. Why?
Can’t answer for all of humanity, but for me I basically live somewhere that has absolutely shit public transport. My village has a total of 5(!) buses a day. But that’s rural life.
I’m planning on moving to The Big City™️, so when I will I won’t be using my car daily. But I won’t get rid of it because for any trip which is beyond the central city routes it’ll be hell to get to without a car. (I expect it to be once a week-ish).
E.g - to get directly from where I’ll be moving to my mom’s house is like 40minutea by car. It’s 3+hours by public transport.
Also if I’ll want to do anything that requires carrying stuff (like let’s say, going to the supermarket to buy more than one handful of stuff…) - a car would make that practical as I’ll be able to put the things in the car rather than carrying it across the city.
I definitely aim to reduce my car usage by a lot, but in my country I’ll still benefit from using a car. Maybe in a decade or two the state of public transport will be much better and I’ll be able to consider dropping the car all together.