In Japan, a "paper driver" (pêpâ doraibâ) is someone who has a driver's license, but no car.

There doesn't seem to be any brief term to describe such a person in American English, besides "broke" or "New Yorker." In a country where virtually everyone is expected to have a driver's license as a form of photo ID, this is curious, to say the least...

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