Is it a right or is it a privilege to have a car ?

When I think of this I see the car as both the problem and the solution kinda chicken+egg. A large part of why our public transport is non-existent or greatly impaired to the point it's unusable is the vast number of drivers both in that they have opted out of public transport and that they are taking up more physical space and so need more roads/space to facilitate them driving or the public transport suffers as they are forced to share the same amount of space. The demands or expectations that people who wouldn't have before should travel 100+ miles to work each day is entirely the result of now being able to by car. It's so ingrained in us by now that most feel it's a normal and acceptable way of life to wake up at 6am to be in the car before 7am and then return home around 9pm to eat a takeaway or ready meal before sleeping and repeating it again, before even getting onto the air quality and environment issues think of how much harm that lifestyle will do both mentally and physically to that person and then to the family they have but can only see on weekends. If a car was a person it's stockholm syndrome.

edit - should answer the question too

I think the ability to travel is a right and I identify a car as a means of travel but I feel the cost to the individuals taking part in no way reflects the damage done to others and so by essentially subsidising the car use of individuals with the health of everyone it has made the viability of cars for those individuals by far outweigh the cost. For the same reasons we all have a right to fly around in helicopters but we don't as it doesn't weigh up as a viable option. I also think that a means of travel means passenger, I don't think the right it's greatly diminished by not being the person with a foot on the throttle, in many cases suitable public transport would be acceptable imo.