The phrase "first driven by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to indicate the initial motivation or cause behind an action or decision. Example: The company's success was first driven by their innovative marketing strategies. Here, the phrase is used to show that the driving force behind the company's success was their innovative marketing strategies, which were the initial cause or motivation for their success.
(The first, driven by users in the US, is "will my credit card work in Europe").
Demand for the basic computer was first driven by hobbyists, but is now bought by educational institutions across the world and the industrial sector, in which the Raspberry Pi has been used to power various machines and control systems.
The eruption was first driven by kink instability and later by torus instability (Fan 2010).
Subjects were first driven by car and then cycled along identical routes in a pairwise design.
Landscape evolution was first driven by slow uplift (10 m/Ma), followed by a second interval of uplift involving a cumulative magnitude of at least 200 m.
With a specially designed sabot for LGG, the projectile together with the ring-shaped impactor being fixed on the sabot is first driven by LGG to a speed of 6-7 km/s.
It doesn't look much when you first drive by (especially compared with more picturesque parts of Venice such as the canals) but when you get into the side streets there are all sorts of little hidden gems.
But to Paula Shepherd, it was "my little dream house," she said, remembering her reaction when she first drove by it in May, a day after it went on the market for $599,000.
The police said that at some point Mr. Rockefeller moved his daughter from the first vehicle to a second, driven by an acquaintance.
On its north side, 22 glass lifts, strapped into orange frames, will hurtle passengers up the yellow shafts at eight metres per second, driven by bright green motors at the summit.
The brightness of their emissions changes every fraction of a second, driven by swirls in the gas sucked from the star and swallowed by the black hole.
