The phrase 'become the driver' is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "John decided to become the driver for the overnight shift, so that he could make money for college tuition."
Collaboration has become the driver of much of today's science.
Magnus said football had "definitely become the driver".
We have to make sure it cannot become the driver of any part of NHS activity".
Looking back at 2013 we can say the cloud has become the driver for tremendous innovation in all companies.
We have to protect the players from themselves and make sure that money does not become the driver.
Bangalore, "sleepy and bungaloidal" on Theroux's last visit, has become the driver of the fabled "Indian economic miracle".
This improved knowledge of natural and hierarchical structures along with advances in polymer science and nanotechnology have become the drivers for the synthesis of biomimetic materials.
This way, by encouraging farmers to grow biomass crops together with their food crops, they would become the drivers of socially responsible development.
Obviously the implication from the headline is that kids who grew up playing rally car racing video games have now become the drivers themselves.
The World Farmers Organisation WFOFO) and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today reaffirmed their commitment to help farmers become the drivers of the global agricultural agenda.
We need rules and norms, but we also need records about apparently irrelevant things that, in non-linear systems like ecological ones, might become the drivers of change and, thus, the determinants of history.
