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

I recently passed a driving test. Driving is shit, I now have earned the right to sit in a metal box that barely moves while watching people pedal past.

It's your right to choose to do journeys using a wholly inappropriate mode of transport. This is not specific to motor vehicles.

We don't own a car (we live in London and have one child, the vast majority of our journeys can be done on foot/bike/bus/train) but there are some where it is simply easier to rent a car (probably 6-10 times a year maybe). Much as I don't mind walking it's nicer, faster and often cheaper to get to my brother's house in a Hampshire village by car than any other method (train/taxi, no buses, walking the 7 miles from the nearest station, etc).

I don't get the vehement anti-motoring argument. It doesn't seem any different from the people who think that bikes should be outright banned.

The bigger debate (in my mind and probably town/city centric) is whether it's a right to be able to park your car on the road near your house.