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unusual facts about The Driver


The Driver

The Driver (Ryan O'Neal) - real name unknown - has made a career out of stealing cars to use as getaway vehicles in big-time robberies all over Los Angeles.


Ubisoft Reflections

In 1999, Reflections became well known for the game Driver, which was inspired by '70s cop shows like Starsky and Hutch and movies like Bullitt and The Driver.


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1991 British Grand Prix

Elsewhere Tom Walkinshaw had bought a 35% stake in the Benetton team, but the driver line-ups were unchanged from the previous race.

200 M.P.H.

While the majority of Cosby's Warner Bros. standup albums were regularly re-released on LP, and eventually issued on CD in April 1998, 200 M.P.H. was not reissued on vinyl (although it was available on cassette in the '80s). It did not see a CD release until 2005, mainly due to controversy over the main sketch's punchline: Afraid that the car was so powerful and hard to control that it would be lethal to the driver, Cosby returns the car and requests that it be given to George Wallace.

2005 Glendale train crash

Both this causation and the end result have many similarities to that of the Ufton Nervet rail crash in the United Kingdom, which occurred only three months previously, although in that case the driver of the car stayed in the vehicle and was killed.

2006 USG Sheetrock 400

On lap 68, the first caution flag was flown for debris on the track, shuffling the driver order and giving the lead to Kevin Harvick.

2007–08 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa

(1) = Narain Karthikeyan had qualified the car for India but was injured later, and replaced by Parthiva Sureshwaren for the balance of the race meet, incurring a penalty of being sent to the rear of the field for the driver change.

Accident on Hill Road

Creepshow 2, a 1987 movie with a scene, The Hitch-hiker, in which a similar vehicular homicide was portrayed where the zombie-like victim followed the driver all the way back to her garage.

AMR 33

There was a crew of two: the driver to the left next to the engine and the tank commander/gunner behind him in the turret which was armed with a 7.5 mm Reibel machine gun.

Auburn State Recreation Area

A stunt from the 2002 film xXx was filmed in the park, in which a Corvette is driven off the Foresthill Bridge while the driver parachutes to safety.

BACE Motorsports

Raines finished second at South Boston, and finished 15th in points, while the 74 team disappeared briefly due to operating expenses, before Chad Little became the driver towards the end of the year.

BMW 3/15

The main differences between the BMW Dixi 3/15 DA-1 and the contemporary Austin Seven were the addition of Bosch shock absorbers, the placement of the driver's controls on the left side of the vehicle, and the use of metric fasteners.

Board track racing

Driver fatalities continued to mount on board tracks into the 1920s, and included four Indianapolis 500 winners, three of which occurred at the Altoona track (another Pillsbury design) in Tipton, Pennsylvania, and three in the same years in which the driver won at Indianapolis.

Car mirror

Rear-view mirror, a mirror in vehicles that allows the driver to see rearwards

Chigley

The indie group Half Man Half Biscuit parodied the Chigley Train Song in their song "Time Flies By (When You're the Driver of a Train)".

Distracted driving

Distracted driving is the act of driving while engaged in other activities—such as looking after children, texting, talking on the phone or to a passenger, eating, or reading—that take the driver’s attention away from the road.

Dove Holes railway station

In 1957, the gradient into Chapel-en-le-Frith was the scene of a serious accident, in which the driver of a runaway freight train, John Axon remained at his post and died, being awarded a posthumous George Cross.

Driver of the Year

The Driver Of the Year Award is an American award founded in 1967 by Martini & Rossi.

Electrochromism

ICE 3 high speed trains use electrochromatic glass panels between the passenger compartment and the driver's cabin.

Hit and run

Otherwise, the driver commits an offence and is liable to a fine of 10000 Hong Kong dollars and to imprisonment for 12 months.

Holden Hurricane

Other features included Pathfinder, an early style of GPS, which acted in conjunction with magnetic signals built into the road to guide the driver.

Hook turn

São Paulo - The hook turn is not official there, but the driver can often apply it in order to achieve a quicker conversion.

Jaunting car

The colloquial name for the driver of a jaunting car was "jarvey", referenced in the song "The Jarvey Was a Leprechaun" by Val Doonican.

Kasey Kahne Racing

Kasey Kahne Racing is a dirt/concrete sprint car racing team founded and owned by Kasey Kahne, who is currently the driver for the Hendrick Motorsports number 5 car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Kelvin Norman

Norman lost control of his vehicle which crossed into on-coming traffic, flipped and landed on a Ford Explorer, killing both Norman and the driver of the Ford.

Kevin Rahm

He also played Norvo Tigan, the brother of Nicole de Boer's character of Ezri Dax, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Prodigal Daughter"; "psychic-guy" patient Mr. Duff in the Grey's Anatomy episode, "Save Me"; the driver in the 2001 VW Jetta ad, "Big Day"; and the groom in the Apple iDVD ad, "Elope".

Knoxville Raceway

The driver with the most 410 feature wins at the Knoxville Raceway is Danny Lasoski of Dover, Missouri with 100 feature wins.

Looe Valley Line

With the driver and guard having now swapped ends, the train recommences its southerly journey, now running alongside the old Liskeard and Looe Union Canal and East Looe River.

Mac Dre

The driver crashed and was able to get to a phone to call 911, but Hicks was pronounced dead at the scene from a bullet wound.

Magnetorheological fluid

It made its debut in both Cadillac (Seville STS build date on or after 1/15/2002 with RPO F55) as "Magneride" (or "MR") and Chevrolet passenger vehicles (All Corvettes made since 2003 with the F55 option code) as part of the driver selectable "Magnetic Selective Ride Control (MSRC)" system in model year 2003.

Marchy Lee

On 13 July 2007, Marchy was announced as the driver for a new team set up by Adrian Fu to compete in the remainder of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia series under the banner "Racing for Charity", in help increase the profile and visibility of the Child's Dream Foundation.

Mark Philo

An inquiry into the crash, which also resulted in the death of the driver of another car, found that it was caused by Philo driving whilst intoxicated by alcohol.

Mercury Meta One

The Meta One also featured built-in Sirius Satellite Radio and a roaming always-on Wi-Fi connection to deliver to the driver updated traffic conditions and real-time reports.

Mikko Hirvonen

He finished third in the driver's championship, 17 points behind Sébastien Loeb.

New York State Route 149

The road was shut down for the accident, where the driver of the tanker was taken to Glens Falls Hospital.

Purley station rail crash

The driver's sentence was later cut to four months upon appeal, and on 12 December 2007 his conviction for manslaughter was overturned by the Court of Appeal, ruling the conviction unsafe as "something about the infrastructure of this particular junction was causing mistakes to be made" as new evidence showed that there had been four previous signals passed at danger at the same location in the five years before the rail crash.

Red Bull X2010

The driver who performed the virtual shakedown test of the car was Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel.

Robert John Bardo

As a consequence of Bardo's actions and his methods of obtaining Schaeffer's address, the U.S. federal government passed the Driver's Privacy Protection Act which prohibits state Departments of Motor Vehicles from disclosing the home addresses of state residents.

Rocco DiSiglio

As he sat in the driver's seat of his Ford Thunderbird Landau on a desolate street he was shot three times at close range in the head by DeVincent.

Saab Information Display

SIDs typically provide functions useful to the driver such as multiple trip odometers, fuel efficiency, estimated range ('distance to empty' - DTE), current CD track or radio station, and also brief description of car system failures.

Sevim Tanürek

The driver, who fled the scene of the accident was identified as Ahmet Burak Erdoğan, son of the current Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, then Mayor of Istanbul.

Stuart Fell

He has appeared on British television many times, with his earliest role being in the LWT comedy series Hark at Barker, in which he plays the driver of a car that crashes when he's distracted by Ronnie Barker carrying a mannequin.

Sunraycer

Aside from the driver, the single heaviest element in the car was the Hughes battery pack that utilized silver-oxide batteries.

Taylor Dayne

She has had roles in independent films such as Fool's Paradise (1997), Stag (also in 1997) and Jesus the Driver (2004), as well as the Warren Beatty-produced 1994 remake of Love Affair.

The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife

For the majority of the film where Broomfield is unable to get an interview with the Leader himself, his attention is drawn to the driver and his wife (JP and Anita Meyer), hence the title (which alludes to the title of Peter Greenaway's 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover).

The libel suit is mentioned amidst a montage of photos and camera footage of Jani Allan and reporters outside the London court in 1992, in the 2006 Nick Broomfield sequel His Big White Self, a sequel to The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, the documentary that spawned the libel suit.

Tidal Basin

On October 7, 1974, Mills' car, with an Argentine stripper known as Fanne Foxe in the back with Mills and driven by a former Nixon staffer, was stopped by US Park police late at night because the driver had not turned on the headlights.

Voiturette

The driver's license for them are available to people over 16 years and are in category "B1" and are valid, subject to restrictions, in all European Union countries.

Volvo V70

The V70R is equipped with Volvo's 4C multi-mode suspension developed in conjunction with suspension experts Öhlins—allowing the driver to vary the car's handling depending on driving style and conditions.

Wesley Coaches

One of these was a thirty by eight feet example built by Yeates of Loughborough, which achieved a transport milestone by being the first coach with no partition between the driver and his passengers, which nowadays is normal practice.