"rather than drive" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to express that someone chose one action over another. For example, "I took the bus to work rather than drive."
Rather than drive the visitor away, Kramer listened to him.
Rather than drive 30 minutes into Albuquerque, we looked for a veterinarian nearby.
Rather than drive us apart, though, this confrontation with reality brought us together.
Even so, people want to learn to live with elephants rather than drive them away.
Rather than drive us apart, my admission had bound us closer together.
Rather than drive home to the Hartford area and back, he simply set up camp.
People are clearly willing to pay more for homes that allow them to walk rather than drive.
As with Gollum, an actor's expressions were being used to guide, rather than drive, the expressions of a virtual character.
Die Welt wrote: "This young team played their way into our hearts with elegance rather than drive.
Even when I was a child I preferred to walk than to take the bus – to cycle rather than drive.
And rather than drive two hours to shop in Omaha, the family uses the Internet more often, and buys less.
