Actually, you're both right. ( and wrong! )
Driving WAS a right, then the people gave the states the power to license drivers and vehicles, require testing, etc., etc..
Driving is now a "privilege" regulated by the various states until such time as the People take that "right" back.
If they fail to control their state's power to control the people, it is no one's fault but their own.
It all began in 1990 when TX sanctioned the privitization of prisons and holding cells.
Since then, this syndicate has no decency or regard for constitutionality when acquiring ‘customers’. And pays handsomely for ‘police’ to haul ‘em in.
As I posted to someone else. WA state allows police to stop you if they think that you are not wearing a seat belt, and anything else is then fair game.
Now, they also want to put transponders in our cars to measure the amount of driving that we do on state roads, so they can charge us accordingly. Of course, who knows what else those transponders could be used for?