or ( 3 ) alternately accelerate and decelerate, thus keeping the first driver guessing as to his intentions, thereby making a fascinating sport of the whole affair.

The driver will pick up more passengers as long as seats are available, and will transport them to their destination based on first come first served rules.

When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.

The first version of Microsoft Windows included a simple graphics painting program called Windows Paint ; Windows Write, a simple word processor ; an appointment " calendar "; a " cardfiler "; a " notepad "; a " clock "; a " control panel "; a " computer terminal "; " Clipboard "; and RAM driver.

One potential reason for this is that locals are permitted to start driving at the age of sixteen, when they are limited to 50mph for two years ( indeed all drivers are limited to 50mph in the first two years after passing their driving test ) and some are not used to having to make progress in the same way that drivers using a larger road network like in the UK are ( even an awful driver can get from anywhere in the island to anywhere else in ninety minutes ).

The following year he took part in his first race as a driver.

Gurney took the lead driver role, and the team's first world championship win, while Brabham gave up his car to several other drivers towards the end of the season.

Brabham was the first post-war racing driver to be knighted when he received the honour in 1978 for services to motorsport.

* Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs.

The band soon met their first manager, Allan Coffman, " the thirty-eight-year-old brother-in-law of Mick ’ s driver friend Stick ".

* 1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.

The first synthesizer to run directly on a host computer's CPU was Reality, by Dave Smith's Seer Systems, which achieved a low latency through tight driver integration, and therefore could run only on Creative Labs soundcards.

Fayed's son, Dodi, from his first marriage to Samira Khashoggi, died in a car crash in the Pont de l ' Alma tunnel in Paris along with Diana, Princess of Wales and driver Henri Paul on 31 August 1997.

Traveling 4, 176 miles ( 6, 720 km ) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in a 1912 REO special touring car, mechanic / driver Fonce V. ( Jack ) Haney and journalist Thomas W. Wilby made the first trip by automobile across Canada ( including one short jaunt into northeastern Washington State when the Canadian roads were virtually impassable.

In 2008, Ian Thompson Jr. became the first driver from Northern Ireland to win the Brisca F2 Stock Car World title since 1972 when he took the honours at Bristol in 2008.

Although Earnhardt was not the first NASCAR driver to die in a wreck, he was arguably more famous than many other drivers that have died.

Windows 2000 is also the first Windows version to support hibernation at the operating system level ( OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state ) unlike Windows 98 which required special drivers from the hardware manufacturer or driver developer.

The first stage of the Intifada began following an incident at the Erez checkpoint where four Palestinian residents of the Jabalya refugee camp were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver.

* May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.

* Arvid Noe, Norwegian sailor and truck driver, probably the first European to die of AIDS-related illness ( b. 1946 )

* February 25 – In an accident at Grove Hill, Harrow, London, England, Edwin Sewell becomes the world's first driver of a petrol-driven vehicle to be killed ; his passenger, Maj. James Richer, dies of injuries three days later .< ref >

For the team's first season, Prost kept one of Ligier's 1996 drivers, Olivier Panis, who had won the Monaco Grand Prix the previous year ; Japanese driver Shinji Nakano was signed to partner Panis.

Prost was the first such driver to take on this role, at the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix.

Although Nuvolari started 1938 as an Alfa Romeo driver, a split fuel tank in the first race of the season at Pau was enough for him to walk out on the team, critical of the poor workmanship that was exhibited.

The crew compartment holds 8 persons ( driver, commander, radio operators plus a five-man sapper squad for dismounted tasks ).

The five-man crew consisted of a driver, gunner, commander and two loaders.

The driver and 26 children die in what remains on of the worst school bus accidents in U. S. history.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

In 1953, while working as a taxi driver, Tramiel bought a shop in the Bronx to repair office machinery, securing a $ 25, 000 loan for the business from a U. S. Army entitlement.

This section includes various comic scenes relating to mutual stereotyping among different ethnic groups ; the two attempt to pass themselves off as indigenous Mexicans, failing to convince one Mexican truck driver after naming the wrong destination, but later succeeding in convincing a U. S. Border Patrol officer by copiously peppering their responses with the Mexican word for " fuck ", which a neighbor had suggested was how all Mexicans speak.

In 1988, a youth group from the First Assembly of God in Radcliff was involved in the worst drunk-driving accident in U. S. history, a bus accident in which a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 hit the group's vehicle, killing 27 people in the crash and the resulting fire.

Nicholson, state senator, U. S. Senator, and Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court ; Sterling Marlin, NASCAR driver ; Dr. Marion Dorsett, inventor of the serum to control hog cholera ; Fran McKee, first female line officer to hold the rank of rear admiral in the U. S. Navy ; Lyman T Johnson, civil rights movement ; and Raphael Benjamin West former Nashville mayor and Civil Rights ally, noted architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. and John Harlan Willis, United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor — for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Some U. S. states and provinces of Canada such as Alberta operate " owner liability " where it is the registered owner of the vehicle who must pay all such fines regardless of whether he was driving at the time of the offense, although they do release the owner from liability if he signs a form identifying the actual driver and that individual pays the fine.

In a few U. S. states ( including California ), the cameras are set up to get a " face photo " of the driver ;.

The original screenplay by Brian Helgeland centers on an eccentric taxi driver ( Mel Gibson ) who believes many world events are triggered by government conspiracies, and the U. S. Justice Department attorney ( Julia Roberts ) who becomes involved in his life.

Jerry Fletcher ( Mel Gibson ), an obsessive – compulsive New York City taxi driver who lectures his passengers on various conspiracy theories, visits his friend Alice Sutton ( Julia Roberts ), who works for the U. S. Attorney, at the Justice Department.

Coburn was raised in Compton, California, where he attended Compton Junior College and enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1950, serving as a truck driver and an occasional disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas.

In that show, he played a Russian cab driver studying for the U. S. citizenship test.

An active Democrat for many years, Faircloth began his political career as a driver for North Carolina U. S. Senator Kerr Scott, who later helped Faircloth get a hardship discharge so he could cut short his draft obligation.

His studies were interrupted by military service lasting from 1945 to 1948, during which he served as a tank driver in Italy for the U. S. Army.

In April 2012, DynCorp International was awarded a contract with the U. S. Navy to provide facility support services for personnel from the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion unit Timor-Leste, including living quarters, internet and telephone services, bathroom facilities, laundry services, kitchen facilities, vehicle / driver / language support, procurement services, warehousing and other services.

Another primary driver in the proliferation of single family homeowners ' associations was the U. S. Clean Water Act of 1977, which required all new real estate developments to detain storm water so that flow to adjoining properties was no greater than the pre-development runoff.

Senate that the U. S. Justice Department and the FBI acted negligently during the 1978-1980 investigations of the Cerro Maravilla incident, such as rejecting interviews with key witnesses ( including the taxi driver ), refusing to offer immunity to certain witnesses, and avoiding various standard investigating tasks.

The travel writer Tim Cahill wrote a book, Road Fever, about his record-setting 24-day drive from Ushuaia in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay in the U. S. state of Alaska with professional long-distance driver Garry Sowerby, much of their route following the Pan-American Highway.

The U. S. eventually eliminated the full-time radio operator, assigning the task to the driver.

U. S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) crash testing of the 2004 US model year Prius yielded a five-star driver and four-star passenger rating in the frontal-collision test ( out of five stars ).

The National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System ( NLETS ) is an interface to search each state's criminal and driver records as well as the License Plate Reader ( LPR ) records going back one year maintained by the U. S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ).

The U. S. alleges that he joined al-Qaida in 1989 and worked as a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, as well as working as a quartermaster for al-Qaida.

It was a difficult year for Surtees, as Pace left the team in mid-season, and replacement Derek Bell struggled to qualify for races, capped by Austrian driver Helmut Koinigg's fatal crash at the 1974 U. S. Grand Prix.

Only a single car was run and to cap off a truly terrible year driver Helmuth Koinigg was killed during the U. S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen.