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Ryan Gosling's primary, simply billed as Driver, is an advanced cybernetic organism from the future. He is sent back in time with the mission of protecting a key figure in the resistance: Benicio, the young boy living down the hallway in his apartment complex. However, a miscalculation sends him six years too far into the past. With no recourse to change his situation and a mission still looming in front of him, he settles in Los Angeles. Understanding that his intervention is not necessary until the year in which he was originally intended to arrive, he sets about finding ways to facilitate the task at hand.
He tracks down one of his primary contacts, Shannon, and they form a working relationship that allows him to blend in and obtain an apartment close to the one Irene and Benicio occupy. When Shannon observes The Driver's skills behind the wheel, he finds him work as a stunt driver. Shannon, hoping to capitalize on The Driver's looks and looking to break away from his nefarious entanglements, enrolls him in acting classes in the hopes of getting him bigger parts down the line. The Driver's programming allows for him to process minute human characteristics and emulate them: he is capable of learning and displaying emotion, though somewhat thinly; he creates more natural, somewhat stylized speech patterns and vernacular and can affect different dialects and languages; he can appear to engage in basic necessary behaviors such as eating, drinking, and sleeping. This programming, along with the acting classes and Shannon's mandated diet of action/chase films, leads to The Driver creating a personality, gleaned from everything from Alain Delon in Le Samourai to Steve
Shannon also sets him up with jobs as a wheelman, which he accepts to gain a better understanding of the layout of LA's criminal underworld and to gain the reputation necessary for his role in later events. While he knows the boy will be compromised at some point, it is not known to him where the threat originates, though he knows it to be the result of {{spoiler|the boy's father's death in a botched robbery attempt}}. By using Shannon and his contacts, he is able to assemble a list of candidates responsible for the potential murder of Benicio. Because preemptive strikes against high level crime bosses would create a power vacuum and destabilize the time loop, The Driver is programmed to refrain from violence or even carrying a weapon until the trigger event ( {{spoiler|Standard's death}}), and being so far off from this, it leaves him with little more to do than work odd jobs for Shannon and perfect his human persona.
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