You might not like that Starfield doesn't have any ground vehicles, but Bethesda's Todd Howard has said that this is by design.
In a game like Starfield, where you can practically explore the entirety of each of its 1000 plus planets, there might be some vehicles like a car or a dune buggy you can use to get around. That isn't the case, though, leaving you to either hoof it, or fly about with your jetpack. But it's not like this is some glaring omission Bethesda made. In fact it was quite a conscious decision, as explained by Howard in a recent interview with Bloomberg.
"It's something we consider," Howard said when asked by Bloomberg where there are no ground vehicles to be found. "Once you do vehicles it does change the gameplay. So by focusing, once you land in your ship, that you're on foot, it lets us really for the players make it an experience where we know how fast they're seeing things." Howard did also offer a sort of "um actually," kind of point as well, going on to say, "in one sense, you do have a vehicle. You have your spaceship, you can go around space. On the surface you have a jetpack you can upgrade which is super fun."
