Bonneville Salt Flats Bill Rishel and two local businessmen tested the suitability of the salt for driving on by taking a Pierce-Arrow onto the surface of the flats. A railway line across the Bonneville Salt Flats was completed in 1910, marking the first permanent crossing. The first land speed record was set there in 1914 by Teddy Tetzlaff. Entertainment filmed at the salt flats include portions of "Knight Rider", "Warlock", "Independence Day" (1996) and , "SLC Punk", "Cremaster 2" from "Cremaster Cycle", "The Brown Bunny", "The World's Fastest Indian", "Gerry", "The Tree of Life", "Top Gear", "" and "". Furthermore, the Pontiac Bonneville
Bonneville Salt Flats ShootOut in September. The Southern California Timing Association and the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association organizes and plans the multi-vehicle events, but all event promoters contribute to prepping and maintaining the salt. "Speed Week" events in August were canceled for the second year in a row in 2015, due to poor conditions of the salt in certain parts of the flats. The salt flats had been swamped by heavy rains earlier in the year, which usually happens, but the rains also triggered mudslides from surrounding mountains and onto a section of the flats used for the land-speed racing courses. In