MAX Update No. 19: A Roof over Our Heads

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We interrupt this science project for something practical. We’ll get back to the subject of drag soon enough.

I have a speaking engagement next week, at The EG, down in Monterey, Calif. They’re paying my expenses to get there from my home here in Oregon, which, since I’m taking MAX, should be about $18 of fuel. That, and lots of cough syrup.

It is, after all, the middle of December, and I whimsically refer to MAX as “an all-weather car,” meaning when you go anywhere in MAX, all the weather gets right in the car with you. That’s fine for Berkeley-to-Vegas in October, but not so great for Cave-Junction-to-Monterey next Wednesday.

Still, this is a great gig — they put out a call for Progressive Automotive X Prize registered competitors to show our cars and talk about our progress — and I sure wasn’t going to turn it down over a mere question of comfort. “I’m tough,” I said to myself, going to my laptop for a long range weather forecast. “Good thing I’m tough,” I muttered when I saw the forecast.

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