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My 80 year old mother would say yes. She is often running her friends to hospital appointments etc. But they don't take her because they either don't drive at all or won't drive more than 2 miles at a time. It could be a generational thing, but I am guessing a lot of the anxious female non-drivers or very occasional drivers on this thread are only in their 30s or 40s.
I don't like motorway driving. But I have had to get off my bottom to do it on occasion because my son needs taking to places. It would not be fair to deny him access to events he wants to attend because I am a wimp. I take A roads when possible but sometimes it just takes far too long. And as I mentioned in a previous post, public transport starts too late on a Sunday to get to a lot of places on time. So I've had to get over myself.
Excellent post. Also, yeah you're right, that many women are going to be properly fucked if their DH dies, or leaves them, or cannot drive because he is ill.
I have seen many a woman (over the years,) who didn't bother to learn to drive because 'oooh I'm soooooo nervous' or 'Oh I can't afford it!' whilst spending £30-40 a week on smoking, or wine, or going out to the pub, and £50-75 a time on their hair/nails/make up/fake tan. Although I am sure the women on here claiming they could not afford to learn to drive, spent absolutely nothing on anything EVER. 
And these same women, (when their husbands leave/die/can't drive anymore) are suddenly cadging lifts, and expecting anyone and everyone with a car, to be their personal chauffeur.
A woman who lives near me has been married 40 years (her and her DH are both 62,) and he has always driven them EVERYWHERE. He had a heart attack last summer, and is no longer allowed to drive. At LEAST 3 times a week, her DD (who is a working woman with 2 kids) does a 25 miles round trip to take her and her DH here there and everywhere; various appointments, to the doctors, the hospital, the clinic, the shopping centre etc etc, and she has fully admitted to me (the daughter) that's it's a bloody nuisance.
There is no public transport in our village, and taxis cost a fortune, so the woman opposite (and her DH) are the local market town is 6 miles away, so they are basically isolated. Yeah - to all the people saying 'get the bus/train/tube,' some places DO NOT have public transport, and not everyone lives in pissing LONDON.
Also, my DH's brother works with a woman who never learned to drive, because she was 'too scared,' And her husband brings her in and comes to fetch her, for every single shift she does. Sometimes she works til 10pm, and her DH has to do a 12 mil round trip to get her. Even when he has been at work all day himself, and has work the next day. Fuck that. No WAY would be doing that.
As I said, we are ALL nervous about driving and most people cannot afford it!