I installed minikube and Virtualbox on OS X and was working fine until I executed

minikube delete

After that I tried

minikube start

and got the following

minikube v1.5.2 on Darwin 10.15.1

✨ Automatically selected the 'hyperkit' driver (alternates: [virtualbox])

The 'hyperkit' driver requires elevated permissions. The following commands will be executed:

...

I do not want to use a different driver, why is this happening? I reinstalled minikube but the problem persisted. I could set which driver to use with:

minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox

But I would rather have the default behavior after a fresh install. How can I set the default driver?