According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, approximately one-third of the nation’s residents don’t have driver’s licenses. In her 2024 book “When Driving is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency,” disability advocate Anna Zivarts argues that not only is America’s car-centric infrastructure harmful to the climate, it also fails to meet the everyday needs of many Americans.
Not having a driver license doesn’t mean not driving. It just means driving without a license in many cases, often also without insurance.
In some cases, these are immigrants who cannot get a driver license without having a legal status. IMO, we should make it easy for these people you get a license and insurance.
In other cases these are bad drivers with suspended or revoked licenses due to serious violations. The rest of us would benefit by their having a public transit option that works.