You know, I've pretty much stopped taking the "you must have a driver's license" bit seriously because most motorists either embellish the adversities of other modes of transportation or because of lifestyle choices that they made. Simply put, people choose to live in subdivisions that make it difficult to accomplish anything without driving, because those subdivisions lack local services and lack the density for local services to ever be practical. In doing so, not only are they making the driving decision but they are also making inadvertent decisions about agriculture (farmland is often converted into a subdivision) and the environment (wildlife habitat is often converted into subdivisions). Government fiscal policy is also decided when people move out to the burbs, because roads are by no means cheap to maintain.

Yeah, there are people who need to drive. Some will need to do so because it is part of their job, and others because their job forces them to live in remote locations. But those people are in the minority.