MAX Update No. 4: Crash Test Dummy

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This one’s going in my wallet. It’s the last pretty picture of MAX, on its way to a date with destiny. An hour later, MAX was in Eureka, stopped behind a van that had stopped for pedestrians, and the car behind me didn’t stop for anything.

According to the accident report, the driver was progressing at a legal 30 mph and failed to notice that us other drivers weren’t progressing at all. MAX is much shorter now, and wrinkly from stern to prow, since the impact from the back pushed me into the van in front.

So, what can we learn from this experience? We can learn how quickly we can make a new car, that’s for sure. MAX is totaled, and though officially it’s being rebuilt, it’s going to be a bit like the joke about Abe Lincoln’s axe:

“Yep, it’s an heirloom, that axe has been in our family for 150 years.”

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