Seconded. I'm not Norwegian but I've been living in Norway for 30 years and my children grew up just like that. Of course they were in fact dependent on me for transport to sports events (handball, archery) but these were often more than 100km round trips, just impractical with public transport (too many changes of bus and train) and anyway we would take turns driving a car full not just our own children.

As for school trips, one thing stands out, compared to the UK at least, and that is that they were expected to take a knife with them. Can't sharpen a stick to hold a sausage over a fire otherwise.