# Getaway Drivers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 2, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getaway-drivers/645811 "2013-01-02T07:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getaway-drivers/645811/15 "2013-01-04T17:41:09Z")
> [@Dread-ed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dread-ed/80046/8): > > In real life, driving a car is not a special skill and few crimes are going to rely on the ability to drive away from the crime scene really fast - doing so would just attract police attention. So in real life crimes, the driver/lookout is probably the lowest status and lowest paid job in the criminal gang. Being left in the car during the crime is the equivalent of being told to cover right field. Anecdote: A female of my aquaintance has a brother in a California prison for life as the result of being the driver for a murder. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getaway-drivers/645811)._