How many of you don't drive?

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Also worth noting that I've been told by my optometrist that I'm legally blind in my right eye.

I never got the chance to learn.

I'd love to learn to drive, but it costs about £30 an hour (~$40) and my family can't help me as half of them live the other side of the country and the other half abroad. I took driving lessons once a week earlier this year, when I still had money, and did terribly. I'd do better in an automatic, but we don't really have them in this country.

I got my License since I was 18. I drive almost daily. I would not drive if the roads were icy, the car I drive is in repairs/inspected (The car has to be inspected to meet the safety requirements every year according to Pennsylvania Law.) and whenever my mom has appointments to go to.

With my experience, it is hard to drive at night, especially in the rain and the roads are wet with the reflection of the headlights from other vehicles. Whenever it comes to unfamiliar roads or roads that I haven't been on before, I use my GPS on my phone.

I've been driving for 30+ years now. I drove more when I was younger. I've no issue driving long distances, 6+ hours at a time, though my legs don't like that sort of thing.

I, too, don't like driving in unfamiliar territory, but if I've got GPS I can manage.

I drive the 401 which isn't for the faint of heart. It's the busiest highway in the world.

I drive less than I used to. Fewer places to go, less desire to do so. Also, there are some days I know I don't have the attention span to safely operate a vehicle.

I do, and I'm okay with just driving around town/in familiar places. But driving in unfamiliar places and on interstates definitely gives me a lot of anxiety and I avoid it. I have poor spacial awareness (especially at night...the lights on cars just seem to blind me and I can never tell how close or far away that light is), so I really avoid any roads where I have to merge into traffic. I honestly don't think I would have been capable of driving if I had lived in the days before GPS/Google maps, because I can't ever find my way through an unfamiliar area without it. I'd be totally lost and have a panic attack.

For some reason, I can't cast a vote...

I'm not even going to try to learn because I don't think a dyspraxic person who's easily distracted and finds looking at the road boring and overstimulating (I know those two things contradict) and has light sensitivity ought to be on the road.
It does help that I like walking and am good at it. I wish I liked buses but I run against people who don't know my age and that's a pet peeve of mine. I hate being asked about child fare at 30.

I have not driven on a consistent basis since 2008 after having a bad wreck which made me feel psychological unpleasant shall we say..

I don't drive.
I may plan to learn somehow in case of need, but no licenses would be involved.


If anything, I highly doubt I'd ever own any four or more wheeled vehicle within my lifetime.

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I got my license and I still don't really drive ... xD Literally I had it for almost 2 months and my parents still don't let me drive their cars and go out of their way not to. I guess I'm considered an "emergency driver" for all that its worth but driving is the purpose of getting one's license. Literally this is why I didn't want to get my license because it served no purpose being in the situation that I'm in where I still can't really go anywhere but its good to have anyway incase of emergencies I guess

^^They're good for emergencies, yes. And good for ID, too.

I hope you get to really drive some day.

When I got my license, I felt really liberated. I was an old man of 37 when I got my license.