I always wondered how do people with a suspended drivers license get food? Not to mention go to work or go to medical appointments. I suppose if they live in the city center they can take the bus but what if they live in the countryside or in a suburb with no bus service?
Rides from friends and relatives. Taxis. Delivery services.
Based on what I’ve seen on Judge Judy, they drive. 
I bet most of them have feet.
But some of them will lose their jobs, not be able to go to medical appointments, etc.
Walk. Travel by bicycle. Beg rides. Take cabs.
I now shop online and have my groceries delivered.
Often, when a judge is suspending your license, you can prevail upon the judge that you need to drive to work, and receive instead a “restricted license”, where you have permission to drive only for a specific purpose.
I have seen a guy in court for violating the restriction on his license. The judge pointed out his restriction was that he could drive to and from work.
A) There was no permission to stop at stores along the way.
B) The store where he encountered the officer was not along the shortest path from his work to his home.
In Texas, one with a suspended drivers license has the option of requesting an ‘Occupational’ license. If granted, this covers operating a vehicle related to: work, school related activities, and performing household duties.
You do realize, do you, that it is only about 4 generations since no-one had a car? Some of them lived way out in the countryside back then too (and no, they did not all have horses).
So about 90% of what most people use cars for, then. It sounds like a suspended license really does not mean much in Texas.
This. Why do you need a car to get food?
Not all areas have grocery delivery service as an option. Sure, you can order things like grain on line, and MRE’s, but good luck getting fresh milk mailed to your home.
If such people can’t get family/friends to give them a ride, or afford a cab, or walk/bike to the store/work/whatever they either shop at corner stores/gas stations/whatever is closest, walk/bike to work, or they drive on a suspended license.
I’ve known a few people (>6, <12) who have had their driving privileges suspended. Every one of them still drove, albeit cautiously.
If you live someplace that doesn’t allow you to access food with the means of transport that you have available, you need to move. Otherwise, you’ll starve.
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Many of the people I know who’ve had suspended or revoked licenses wind up getting motor scooters.
I am puzzled why the OP asked this question instead of the broader question as to how people who don’t own cars or are too disabled to drive anymore get food…
I do find it an interesting question.
Presumably, someone who intends to live without a car will move to somewhere that has alternative transportation available or has life’s necessities within walking distance, as well as find a job that does not require a car.
But if someone who has set him self up to live or work in a car-dependent area suddenly loses their driving privileges, what then? Say you bought a house in one of the new suburban housing developments where zoning laws keep stores miles away, there are no sidewalks, and the streets are six lane highways with no shoulders? Even if you want to be a daredevil and bicycle, what about the winter when the roads are covered with snow and the snow plows have covered the edge of the road with mountains of snow?
And not everybody works downtown either. What if you work in a suburban office center with no public transportation?
People just drive. The reality is that you can drive for years and years without being stopped and challenged for your driver’s license. I’m not saying it’s right or wise, but sadly, a segment of the population calculates that the amortized risk of eventually getting cited for driving on a suspended license is less costly than making proper arrangements in the present moment.
And how, exactly, is that somehow more legal than driving a car on a suspended license…?
I’ve never had a licence, nor a car, and yet I have, somehow, magically, not starved to death.
I walk to the shops, or I get public transport. Exactly the same way everyone did a few decades ago, before “everyone” had a car.
I think it’s pretty obvious what th OP’s logic is:
The situations you describe are people who make permanent changes to their lifestyle,(moving to places where they live near a bus line, or where a disabled person may have family, or move into assisted living)–where they don’t drive, and will never need to drive again.
The OP is asking about people who need to drive every day (like most Americans), and are suddenly forced to stop doing so for 6 months, but do not want to make any changes to their lifestyle.
If you are European, and have never seen a typical American suburb, maybe you don’t realize just how difficult it is to survive there without a car. Many people live in neighborhoods of large houses built on half-acre plots of land, so that it may be a 2 or 3 mile walk to the nearest shop.
Because in many jurisdictions scooters don’t require a license.
Either you find a workaround or you move. I mean, what do people do when their houses burn down? You figure something out.
Now if you choose to live in social and geographic isolation, of course this is going to be harder.