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Wednesday · July 22, 2026 |
| Your source for collision repair technology and equipment intelligence. |
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| In This Issue |
| Council Pulse · Shop Stack Breakdown · More From the Newsroom · What We're Reading |
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| The Future Fix Technology Council is an invite-only group of industry leaders who respond to a monthly question on the technologies shaping collision repair. |
| What is the real reason so many shops delay technology they know they need, and what finally moves them from knowing to buying? |
| "The question has to shift from 'Can I afford this technology?' to 'Can my business afford to operate without it?'" |
| Josh McFarlin · Chief Operating Officer · AirPro Diagnostics |
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| This month, Technology Council members weighed in on why shops may hesitate, and what finally pushes them to a purchase. Their answers kept landing on the same idea: the holdup is rarely price. It is trust, confidence, and bandwidth. |
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| Inside the stack at Shadow Lake Collision |
| This independent Nebraska shop holds certifications across nine brands with 35 employees at two locations. Owner Eric Dawson walks through how he splits estimating and shop management across two platforms, and the pricing and cycle-time case for bringing ADAS calibrations in-house. |
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| Shop Management · Refinish |
| Repair Quality: Why Systems Beat Talent |
| On a Collision Vision roundtable, Sheryl Driggers, Erin Solis, and Tony Larimer make the case that refinish consistency comes down to process, training, and shop conditions, not a handful of star technicians. |
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| Outside voices worth your attention this cycle. Curated by the Autobody News editorial team. |
| The people who warned AI would take your job are now walking it back. Economists aren't. |
| Quartz, via Yahoo Finance, reports the two camps have traded places: tech CEOs are softening their AI-doom predictions while more than 200 economists, including 16 Nobel laureates, warn AI could reshape the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution. |
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