Old cars and safety

 A couple of weeks ago, a man named Robert Pease was killed driving his 1969 VW Beetle. He was on his way home from the funeral of a friend and colleague of his, and he went off the road at a tight corner and was killed.

The irony is that Pease had written a book on safe driving and was famous within his circle of analog electronics design professionals for, among other things, his loyalty to the old Volkswagen in which he was finally killed.

 From Wikipedia:

Death

Pease was killed in the crash of his 1969 Volkswagen Beetle, on 18 June 2011. He was leaving a gathering in memory of Jim Williams, who was another well-known analog circuit designer, a technical author, and a renowned staff engineer working at Linear Technology. Pease was 70 years old, and was survived by his wife, two sons, and three grand-children.

The sudden passing of Bob Pease triggered a small flood of remembrances and tributes from fellow technical writers, practicing engineers, and electronics hardware hacking enthusiasts.