I always find it extremely weird seeing birders in cars, often alone, driving through nature areas and not even leaving their cars to watch/hear birds. I understand the whole "mobile cabin" thing, but not driving through whole regions to "score" as many birds possible, and in the meantime helping destroy that same nature. It's high time fuel cars become obsolete, but even the electrics need to have electricity produced, the "green" electricity needs solar panels and wind turbines produced...All those cars eeeeverywhere, people growing more lazy by the day, they don't even bike on their own anymore but need help from electricity there as well. Just to get further faster with as little effort as possible, insane.
Personally, I don't have a driver's license. Never had enough income to afford it, nor a car, and I don't miss it one bit. Ok, that few times there's a neat bird somewhere and I can't get there because of bad weather...(more often it's just fulltime job hindering) Or when it's a pain to find bikes for rent somewhere abroad. Yes, where I would go flying, when I once finally will, that's a minus for me.
I travel through the Netherlands by train, with a 24" folding bike, which I even go out camping with. It takes more effort to get somewhere, which can be frustrating with our winds and rain, but also very rewarding while in the meantime I know I worked on my health. For bigger transport? A large trailer that goes behind the bike. Hauled a small tree with it from 25km away the other day.
Would I buy a car when I could afford it? Yes, I guess so. But I would choose it carefully, electric/fuel combo, and would not quit the train/bike routine and keep the car for only when I can't reach a patch or twitch by bike. Mainly it would be great to have a driver's license so I can hire cars on holiday to drive the longer distances and mountainous areas. But in most places public transport, bike hire and legwagon do the tric.