> But in Hawaii, everyone rents a car, drives it the ten minutes from the airport to the hotel, parks it at the hotel, leaves it there for a week, then drives it back to the airport to get home.

When I was in Hawaii I took shuttles but my friends rented a car. One day I hitched a ride with them to a trailhead and we took a tropical hike that ended up being the absolute high point of the trip for me. It was remote and I'm pretty sure no public transportation went there.