motorist

plural motorists

1. One who drives a motor vehicle.

   Moreover, the motorist, even if the speed at which he travelled enabled him to appreciate what he saw, does not see the country at all. What he does see is a tarred road, a couple of blackened or dust-covered hedges, and a stream of other motorists.

   1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 13

   1 more example

   In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat.

   2009 August 5, Matt Richtel, “Federal Agency Plans Distracted Driving Forum”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021

   Synonyms: driver, autoist, automobilist, motorman