Goofs

When Drive and Irene are in the diner, the ketchup bottle on the table has the "back of the bottle label" on both sides.

When Bernie visits Shannon's garage to see his newly acquired stock car, Nino criticizes Bernie for making the purchase and expresses his preference for a 1955 Ford Thunderbird. When the scene cuts to a conversation between Bernie and Driver, the Ford Thunderbird is no longer seen on camera.

While Driver is waiting outside of the pawn shop (approximately two and a half minutes on-screen) the orientation of the Sun moves from Noon to late Afternoon.

Try as they might, directors just can't get the sun to stay put while they redo takes.

However, it is the director's responsibility to get some continuity in the shots and plan re-shoots on another day with the same weather conditions.

After being beaten up, the character 'Standard' has a large gash on the left side of his head. However, when he is being driven to the pawn shop, it has disappeared.

During the car chase after the pawnshop robbery, the chasing car almost comes to a stop in the last corner. The next shot shows a huge speed before it crashes.

That's a very fast car capable of huge speed acceleration.

When Driver steals the Mustang off the street he gains access without using a key. He would have needed a properly cut and coded transponder key to start the car. Also car's alarm would have gone off right when the Driver opened the door.

During the initial sequence, Driver is listening to the Clippers game on the radio, but the XM radio is tuned to the 60s on 6 channel, which plays music from the 1960s, not current sports.

Very unrealistic to think that one would be able to compress to a thin layer the bones of the face even with repetitive and forceful hits with the sole of a shoe onto the floor of an elevator: it would require much harder surfaces and the head would roll, the shoe would slip on the fresh blood, a real mess, but not that kind of gory Hollywood-sensational mess.

With the exception of the Chevrolet stock car and Driver's Chevrolet Impala, the cars driven by Driver are all automatics but change gear with the sound of a manual transmission.

A dead body cannot be sitting up, all the more leaning on the bumper of a car.

Near the end of the opening credits, the audience can see Driver pulling in to his parking spot at his apartment. The spot is labeled 520. However, Driver's apartment door in subsequent scenes is 405.

However, it is possible that apartment 520 is empty and that Driver has decided to use this lot to park closer to the corridor.

In one shot, the tachometer on Driver's steering column reads 0 RPMs and none of the other gauges are reading normally for driving. This is likely due to the vehicle being towed on a dolly. The tachometer can be seen working in other shots.

Obviously flipped footage of Driver when he first spots Irene and Benicio standing with Shannon at the garage. In addition to the text on the lift being backwards, his hair is parted in a different direction and the brown patch on his denim shirt has jumped to the other side of his chest.

Obvious fake "orange" blood on Driver's face in the motel's bathroom.

While stealing a Mustang GT, Driver can be seen wearing his driving gloves as he walks up to the car. The gloves are seen in the next shot hanging from the rear pocket of his jeans as he enters the vehicle with bare hands, only to reappear on his hands when he is behind the wheel in the following shot.

They are his "driving" gloves, not his "breaking into cars" gloves. He took them off to protect them from possible rough work and put them on for again driving.

In the initial scene when Driver is waiting for the two robbers to return, a crew member can be seen walking in the driver side mirror of the Chevy Impala.

Careful viewing of that mirror shows nobody walking and actually shows nothing but blur.

During the car chase after the pawn shop robbery they drive towards a silver Ford Focus which honks its horn. When they pass the car it turns out to be a blue Toyota Corolla.

The Ford veered off the road and the Toyota drove up beside it just in time to be in the shot.

(0:07:15) Driver realizes they have been spotted on the bridge by the police helicopter. He immediately puts his foot down and the engine sound suggests fast acceleration. However, the distance to the other cars in front hardly changes in the following scenes, if at all.

The camera reflection is seen on a dolly move where the Driver sees Irene with Benicio outside the Grocery Store and gives them a ride home.

Not only is there no camera reflection, there are no reflective surfaces to see a reflection in.

When The Driver opens the door for the robbers at the beginning of the movie, you can hear the car make a beeping noise. This "key in ignition" noise only plays when the driver's door is open, to prevent locking the keys in the car.

Obvious and almost comical "slapped cheek" sound from the sound bank when Driver is slapped by Irene.

In one scene when Driver and Irene are talking on the phone, Driver is seen using a cell phone. When the shot cuts to Irene, we hear Driver hanging up with what sounds like a landline phone being put back on its cradle.

At 44:38 into the movie and during the chase after the pawn shop robbery, the camera cuts to a shot of the girl in the back seat showing the chase car being flipped in slow motion. Just to her left shoulder on the rear interior deck of the car is the Iconix HD camera that is used to photograph some of the case scene.

At 0:04:42 a murky figure in the right rear seat is reflected in Driver's rear view mirror. This can only be Nicolas Winding Refn, filming with a hand held camera, as he did for most of the shots inside the car.

A television shows the Los Angeles Clippers playing the Toronto Raptors in the opening scene. Later, while Driver waits in his car, the radio announcer calls the score of an NBA game between the Boston Celtics at 77 points and the Los Angeles Clippers at 72 points. Moments later, after announcing the Celtics scored, the radio announcer states the score is still Celtics 77, Clippers 72.