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.
Yeah, that’s kind of a weird way to look at it because the inverse is also true: having a driver’s license also doesn’t actually mean someone drives. I don’t own a car, but have a license. I walk or take the bus for most of my transportation needs, but renew my driver’s license so that I have the option to rent a car for the rare situations where it makes sense.
Why the immigrant perception? Seems to feed the propaganda of “immigrant bad”.
I agree with your point, but there are plenty of reason someone would choose to drive without insurance. It does not necessarily mean they are automatically an immigrant.
There’s no way those numbers change it drastically from “about a third”.
We should not make it easier to drive, we should make it easier to get around without needing to drive.