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This past July, while visiting Grass Valley, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, I nearly died. I was driving my mother-in-law’s 1991 Toyota Previa on my way back to her house from a morning tennis match when the brakes gave out while going down a steep and winding hill. As the vehicle was speeding up, I tried [...]