Driving is not a right. It's a privilege.
And in addition I would propose that approximately forty thousand people a year would be killed directly in vehicle collisions and that your children would be put in danger by you and your neighbors.
It is possible that you are talking about one of the very rare (and ever decreasing) rural areas which simply does not have enough population density to make public transport viable. But, we will worry about that after the dense suburbs, exurbs and downtowns have a modern transport system.
Spot on - and societies obsessed with cars effectively deny that right to people who cannot drive or cannot afford a car.