So I've been setting it up and starting from scratch for 3 days, following multiple YouTube videos specifically for Mac OS, no dice, chrome driver is in the user/local/bin folder in exe format.
I've verified its the correct x64 version and does run fine from the terminal, I've tried using chmod and sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin, I've uninstalled and reinstalled via home-brew.
I've gone in circles with chatGPT, followed every stack overflow article and YT vid, and gone into the settings of my Mac and granted chromedriver, IntelliJ and chrome full disk access, and have allowed its permissions with it being downloaded from the internet under the "privacy and security" tab.
As above tried every method I can find online, constantly outputting the error below:
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/usr/local/bin": error=13, Permission denied
Process finished with exit code 1
// System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");
Should be path to chromedriver exe .. not bin folder