@compmom I will be living at home.
One summer my daughter lived at home (in mid 20’s) because she had an internship nearby. She usually lives in cities and didn’t have her license. She would walk a few blocks away from her workplace so she could be picked up privately so I get your concern. (It was kind of a joke.) But honestly, it’s fine, and if you are living at home makes perfect sense. Not weird at all. I know a lot of students living at home and being driven- it makes economic sense.
I think you should get your license. That way, you and your family can carpool in the most efficient ways. It may not necessarily make sense for one of your parents to drop you at school five days a week. Depending on everyone’s schedules, there may be days when it makes sense for you to drop one of them off at work, take the car to school, and then return to pick up your parent.
A couple of my colleagues at work get dropped off and picked up by their high school or college-commuter kids. It’s what makes sense for them.
My younger daughter doesn’t drive. She ubers every where. I also work with a lot of young people who do not drive, it could be a challenge sometimes when they travel to places where there is no uber/taxi. We actually paid for a driving course for someone so she could get to a client site.
My kids were thrilled any day they got dropped at high school. They had to ride the big yellow looser cruiser or get a ride from a friend because I usually left for work an hour before they left for school, but if they needed to be to school early I could drop them.
Not everyone is destined to drive. My micropreemie daughters is just driving regularly this summer and she’s 21 (and still really awful at it, doesn’t drive at night, on the highway, when it rains so ‘driving’ is loosely defined). Got her license at 18 but only because Florida gives one to anyone who can breathe. Many of her preemie friends also can’t drive and never will. They all seem to have different issues - vision problems, coordination, small motor, gross motor, but this in common. One of her friends lives at home, commutes to college by light rail (as do most of the students as the cost is included with their student fees), and gets rides, takes the bus, but she’ll never drive.
For the OP, just have some back up - Uber, bus, friends with cars. You don’t want to be dependent on your dad all the time. But no one will notice.
I teach at a partially commuter college, and loads of my students get picked up and dropped off by parents–or siblings, or friends, etc. No embarrassment at all.
I have to differ from those who say you need a license. A car is a big expense–not just price, but insurance, gas, etc. And if your dad is using his for work, you’re not going to have it available to use separately. So I think your plan is fine, as long as you plan to make all possible use of your time on campus to counteract that you can’t just go back and forth at at any time. It takes planning to make it work, but it’s totally doable.
I usually took the bus to and from college from home. I was very happy on those rare occasions when my father deigned to pick me up or drop me off.
It’s free Uber. Thanks, Dad! I didn’t get my license until just before graduation because I didn’t have a car. I knew how to drive, though. No one cares. At all. And it is some much better than taking a bus. My teens and their friends love to get dropped off and will wait for me after school to avoid riding the bus home. Many days, I also give my coworker a ride and she has grown kids. I wish someone would drive me around!
I third or fourth learning to drive, It is a major life skill. Otherwise the lift to school is fabulous. You can sleep LOL.
Your dad is super nice. You’re quite lucky.
No one cares.
I was 27-29 and married, and I loved that my mom could drop me at law school and pick me up! Nice visiting time! (My house and school were between her house and work.) Enjoy your parents while you still have them.
I know that lots of kids who grow up in the city have no need for a license as a form of transportation. But I would like to suggest that you get yours anyway.
For what it’s worth, having a license as a form of ID can save a lot of hassles. And having yours may come in handy in the event that dad is ill or has to travel for work.
No bus? Can’t bike? Okay, I do think it is unusual, but think of the savings! And I agree you need to get your license of many reasons.
I think getting the rides will be fine but I also think that you should get your license, so you can reciprocate on occasion, either for your parents or in other situations.
There is nothing wrong or embarrassing, period.
I was a klutz with a stick shift then had no time to get around to learning to drive. Finally got my license before junior year of medical school when I needed to get to hospitals. Had lived on campus as an undergrad, then walked to basic sciences from my apartment, bummed rides the first two years of medical school. Son turned 16 fall of senior year in HS, busy but we made sure he got his license before leaving home for college. He lost interest during the school year when he knew he couldn’t get a parking permit (not that we would have let him take a car for the mile).
So- find the time while you are living at home to get that darned license. Even if putting up with difficult parents (my dad once dropped me off a block from home- tensions and disagreements were escalating). It is one of those life skills to get sooner than never. Get your driving practice to/from college. Make it a goal for this year. So what if you never get to drive/have a car.
Add to others. College is NOT like HS. No one cares.
Yeah, no one will notice. But if the OP thinks appearances are important, then ride in the backseat. Now you have a driver.
@wis75 I think that’s funny that you didn’t drive in Wisconsin. Everyone I knew there could drive, usually long before they legally could at 16. We drove boats and tractors and snow mobiles on private land or water. I knew guys who drove themselves to driver’s ed! They’d drive ‘something’ to the high school - motorcycle, dirt bike, truck, car - and park on the other side of the school, walk over to ‘lessons’ and then walk back to their form of transportation and take off. Taking driver’s ed was required if you were to get a license before 16. I even knew one guy who had so many tickets before he was 18 he stopped taking driver’s ed because he had no chance of getting a license before 18. He knew how to drive.
He knew how to drive badly. 
No, just fast.