The study presents a binary logit model to explain the factors influencing a personal car user’s choice to hire a permanent chauffeur at the household level in India. The study refines the existing literature on car use in the context of India by highlighting that there are two types of users, i.e. self-driven and chauffeur-drive car users. “Results indicate that households with individuals having immobility issues, households with school-going children and households with female elderly people above the age of fifty-five years are more likely to hire a permanent driver for a personal car.” It can be said that keeping a full-time chauffeur is a mobility strategy practised by personal car-using households to preserve the mobility of vulnerable members under situations where self-driving is a risk due to age-related illness, or due to disability, time pressure, inability to hold a driving license. Chauffeur-driven personal cars are preferred in households with vulnerable individuals like children and older adults because they require supervision and physical assistance in their movement to avoid any harm like injury, accidents, abduction or harassment from stranger danger.