Nowadays, we live in a land to which our fundamental rights, such as the right to travel from one place to another, especially when utilizing a motor vehicle, are skewed in such a perverse way, that driving a car is considered to be a privilege, and not thereby a right. To understand this better, a privilege is as defined by Merriam-Webster.com: "a right or benefit that is given to some people and not to others," which succinctly summarizes the issue.
The problem with driving being considered as a privilege is that privileges are fairly easy to revoke because a privilege is considered for the most part to be a special dispensation provided to the citizen upon accomplishing a certain thing, or exercising a certain action, but are also subject to specific rules, laws, ordinances and regulations, and to a lesser extent arbitrary law. On the other hand, a right is something that belongs to you, to which for the government or its authorities to take away any of your rights, typically means a surrender of that right voluntarily or the confiscation of that right through a court of law judgment or its equivalent.
Currently, the driving of a vehicle on a public road is enforced as a privilege, and not a right, to which this is why each driver of a vehicle applies for a basic driver's license which will enable them to travel the roads subject to specific restrictions. However, should that driver be found later to be in violation of the laws of the respective State in regards to their driving, that driver's license and thereby their ability to drive on the public roads in America, can be confiscated, restricted, or revoked.
Depending upon the city or town that you reside in, driving a vehicle may or may not be critical for your overall everyday activities, however, for most adults that have commitments to a job or school or whatever, there is a fundamental need to be able to drive a vehicle as the alternatives to doing so, are often rather inconvenient, too expensive, or unreliable. This means, that the fact that the government treats driving as a privilege, to which this privilege can be revoked by the same government and/or never be issued in the first place, creates an undue burden against certain members of society.
Rather than seeing driving a vehicle as a privilege, the government, should regulate the business of driving, and while some people may see this as essentially being the same thing, it isn't. In point of fact, a regulation properly written, is something created by the Legislative branch of government, to which there would be little merit for using State coercion in order to get citizens to comply to a given driving regulation, as long as the regulations were written broadly enough so that the statue would allow car insurance companies as well as the lien holders of vehicles themselves to tack on their own additional rules or regulations upon the driver of the vehicle, to which the driver would then weigh the tradeoffs of this or that so as to get the best fit for their budget and corresponding rate.
The driving on the public roads of America, should not be treated as a privilege, but rather should be subject to reasonable regulations, so as not to interfere with the reasonable right for citizens to travel freely along the public roads of America which they as taxpaying citizens have already paid for.