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Depends on the definition of "have".
I sold my car years ago after I realized I only drive it cause cars need to be driven from time to time, to prevent damage.
I live in a city with a car-sharing provider which I then used about once a month.
Recently, my mom got banned from driving for 6 months, for some stupid shit she wasn't actually guilty of, so she loaned me her car.
Which I now drive from time to time, to prevent damage.
We have two. One is exclusively for towing a camper. We keep the miles down on it (~5k miles after two years). The other handles everything else.
Before COVID, my partner worked from home and I biked/bussed. It was about an hour each way. Driving was only 20 minutes and parking was free, but I tried to bike as often as I could. Also sometimes traffic made driving a terrible 40-60 min slog.
Biking was mostly fine except for the pedestrians who would wander into an intersection with no walk signal glued to their phones completely incapable of hearing my bell through their headphones. I actually purchased one of those car horns right before COVID had me WFH and I’ve been doing that ever since.
So now we just drive for errands, restaurants, and weekly groceries. I’m working on moving groceries to a bike trailer, but my partner isn’t as much of a cyclist, so it’s been tough to get her to bike to restaurants.
Dont need one. Public transport is good in my city thankfully
I drive mine maybe once or twice a month, I wish there was better train transportation to the places where I want to go (and there absolutely should be), but all the public transit around me is a clusterfuck nightmare.
Other than that it's bicycle or bus where the bus works.
I sold my car when I moved from a rural town to the city. I’ve been walking and taking public transit since. Although I have been carrying a GoPro lately when I walk. There doesn’t seem to be any traffic enforcement anywhere and just crossing the street has been extremely dangerous. Motorists are psychopaths.