Ordinary tyres usually wear in a linear fashion, but when F1 tyres reach their wear limit, as often happens with these quick-degrading Pirelli tyres, the performance can drop off instantly – "dropping off a cliff" as drivers call it.
But the driver, Cliff Salvesen of Ostrander, Ohio, wasn't distraught.
It is only when the car finally goes over a cliff and the driver dives out just in time (of course) that we discover him to be nothing more than a young boy.
Along the way he unthinkingly destroys several lives, including those of a sweet young hardware store employee (Elayne Heilveil) he summons to his motel room, and the devoted driver (Cliff Emmich) whom Maury gets to take the rap for a parking-lot stabbing that Maury has committed.
"The fiscal cliff is the primary driver of uncertainty, and a person in my position is going to make a decision to postpone hiring and investments," Mr. Powers said.
The alleged digital infallibility of satnav, with its co-ordinates broadcast by the 24 GPS satellites from a height of 20,000km, repeatedly leads the driver to cliff edge, rutted track, deep bog, brick wall, rushing river and (literally, in several reported cases) up the garden path.
Mr. Cosby thought Cliff should be a limousine driver.
On Capitol Hill, a big driver of the fiscal cliff fiasco, for example, and of potential further lurches rightward on immigration, is the GOP's geographic divide.
On a particularly wide and inviting sandy beach, we pulled ashore and followed a path up toward the cliffs to a site our shuttle driver, Ms. Glover, had pointed out during the ride up.
Reroute an escaped convict's Uber to drive off a cliff, and then frame the innocent Uber driver for JonBenét Ramsey's death, so that it looks like he deserved it.
