What might the advantages of a car be?

Answer 1

...well, where I live, not only are license & car quintessential for traveling great distances in order to reach the job-place, but they're almost always explicitely demanded by the employers, meaning that one is to earn the license & buy a cheap car (even a microcar ought do) if they wish to be hired in the first place! All this despite my country's fairly high population density... I suspect the situation is similar elsewhere, too...