Disclaimer: I’m not from the US.
As a student in a relatively large-ish city, I’ve been doing fine with public transportation. I’m not particularly interested in driving because of (no particular order):
- environmental impact (in part mitigated by EVs)
- ‘severe’ ADHD; I would never be relaxed driving
- safety; I don’t trust other drivers to follow the rules properly
Should I still get a driver’s license sooner than later?
It’s a good thing to have if you will ever in the rest of your life need to drive anywhere.
Probably getting a licence would be useful. You don’t have to own a car in order to maintain a licence, but it could be handy to have the ability to drive should you ever need to.
If you ever plan to travel to a place that doesn’t have working public transit (e.g. US), you don’t really have a choice not to (although you may wait until an employer pays for it).
Cars have their legit uses, and being able to rent (carshare) one for the few cases per year where it is exceptionally inconvenient not to have one is great. OTOH, depending on where you live, the cost of getting a license might be able to pay for some completely absurd taxi/Uber trips. If a trip costs $300, most people wouldn’t consider it, but if you do that once a year and the license would cost you $3000, that’s less unreasonable than it looks like.
