diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 222ccc204e8..ce261c8e4df 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - Fixed the case when disk's size is bigger than Integer's max value (#379, #380)
 - Fix erroneous version reference used during CI testing of shaded dependencies
 - Fix leakage of Vibur and Tomcat JDBC test dependencies in `jdbc-test` and `mysql` modules (#382)
+- Add timeout and retries for creation of `RemoteWebDriver` (#381, #373, #257)
 
 ### Changed
 - Added support for Docker networks (#372)
diff --git a/modules/selenium/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BrowserWebDriverContainer.java b/modules/selenium/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BrowserWebDriverContainer.java
index 3ea70d42566..7ae9b3787d9 100644
--- a/modules/selenium/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BrowserWebDriverContainer.java
+++ b/modules/selenium/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/BrowserWebDriverContainer.java
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 import org.openqa.selenium.remote.BrowserType;
 import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
 import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
+import org.rnorth.ducttape.timeouts.Timeouts;
+import org.rnorth.ducttape.unreliables.Unreliables;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.traits.LinkableContainer;
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState;
 import static java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit.SECONDS;
@@ -157,7 +160,11 @@ protected void containerIsStarted(InspectContainerResponse containerInfo) {
             recordingSidekickContainer.start();
             currentVncRecordings.add(recordingSidekickContainer);
         }
-        this.driver = new RemoteWebDriver(getSeleniumAddress(), desiredCapabilities);
+
+        driver = Unreliables.retryUntilSuccess(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
+                Timeouts.getWithTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
+                        () ->
+                                () -> new RemoteWebDriver(getSeleniumAddress(), desiredCapabilities)));
     }
 
     /**