Transplanting a Seattleite

The only thing that really surprises me about this is that you would ever put it so absolutely ("This kid is not ever going to do X"). Seems to me the kind of language you have used around me is more like "It's not a given that this kid will do X."

But yeah, I've run into an amazing number of people over the years who don't drive, for nearly as many reasons as people. (One guy has a strong tendency to motion sickness, which his son has inherited, and his wife also doesn't drive. He pretty much had to make his son learn to ride a bike, as biking was so much faster for most places they went than walking or taking the bus.)

I am not sure I would have learned to drive if it hadn't been expected of me, but that was more of an anxiety/low-confidence thing (I did in the end learn with reasonable speed and passed the test on the first try), which in all likelihood requires very different treatment.

My kids haven't done driver's ed because it's so expensive to insure teenage drivers. I never did any serious driving until after I was out of grad school, so it hasn't been a big priority.