Spielberg praised how the truck was handled in an exceptionally safe manner by 50 year old stunt driver Carey Loftin. Although it appears the truck is driving at a recklessly unsafe speed along the winding California roads, it is actually not going more than 30 mph. To get the sense of increased speed, Spielberg borrowed the specially-made camera car from the 1968 Steve McQueen thriller Bullitt, which could lower the camera to only 6 inches off the ground. Spielberg also filmed the vehicles against a background of cliffs which, when combined with an upward angled perspective from the wheels, created an optical illusion of much faster speed.

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