To accomplish this, the sanctioning bodies continually refined rules prescribing vehicle construction, driver attire, the manner of racing, and the conditions on the track.
(Flying cars need to comply with both existing aviation and driving laws regarding construction, driver licensing, and safety precautions, which often run at odds with each other, like requiring non-flight-friendly materials in cars for crash protection).
During construction his driver drove into what looked like a large muddy pothole but turned out to be a small pond, flooding the car up to his chest.
ALONG with improvements in car construction and driver safety gear, modifications to racetracks are helping to reduce the severity of crashes.
Flip through the help-wanted sections, and the spectrum of real, grown-up jobs seems pretty limited, too, and a lot more prosaic: sales rep, bookkeeper, construction worker, driver, programmer, nurse's aide.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police said a Palestinian construction vehicle driver was shot dead after an attack on a bus that killed an Israeli passer-by.
Mr. La Barbera, 47, is president of a Teamsters local representing 4,000 construction industry drivers and heads the Teamsters' district council for the New York metropolitan region, representing 100,000 Teamsters.
They are cleaners, construction workers, drivers and security guards, to name a few, and though they face the same reprisals as anyone working more directly with the American government they do not fall into the special category.
In 1996, Mr. La Barbera was appointed trustee to clean up the union local representing more than 3,000 construction truck drivers, which had long been controlled by the Gambino crime family.
Signs tout high-rise apartments and condos under construction, telling drivers that they could be home by now if only they weren't stuck in their cars on a slow-moving highway.Yet commuters' suspicion of local bureaucrats may trump their dislike of congestion.
And if all goes well, the temporary roadway will preclude the hair-wrenching gridlock and sleepless nights of jackhammering that surely would have come had the city followed the conventional approach of simply closing down the lanes under construction, leaving drivers to fend for themselves.
