Tow lights connectors aren’t magic. Any car can be outfitted for electronic braking and turn signals super, super cheaply. You literally splice into the wires going to the tail-lights. Then you have signals for the turn indicators, brakes, and hazard lights.
I rigged my vehicle for lights and brakes on a trailer for like 12 bucks.
My suggestion would actually be “hotel” for most people.
But if you own a camper, you should probably have the means to move it on short-notice. If the waters are rising from a storm near my parent’s house at 4am they can move the RV. Theirs is a Class-C motor home, so it can drive itself, but if they’d gone with a towable model they’d need the ability to move it.
There’s also a class of people who basically live full-time in campers. Some are retirees. Some are people who work jobs that require them to bounce from place to place for a few months of work at a time. These are people who could, in principle, benefit from something like this.
There’s also a safety factor for the drivers, depending on the reliability of the system. Having a massive trailer attached to your much-smaller vehicle can be disastrous in a wreck. Allowing the trailer or main vehicle to crash separately from the other is a good thing.
The lack of sufficient population density to support public transit makes Americans crave cars. Population density is low because the US has the space, and the areas that are dense are stupidly expensive.
I’d love to take a bus or light rail to work, but instead I end up having a saily commuteof over 100 miles round trip. In the city where I work, a 600sft studio apartment would cost an extra 30 grand a year versus my 3 bed, 2 bath place 50-ish miles away.
The benefit is people not buying and daily-driving $85,000 F-350s so they can tow a camper 4 weekends a year.
Paperwork and stamp are still needed, but no extra $200 fee. The cost of a the materials to print supressors (including the printer itself) is pretty close to that $200 price point.
But there’s lawsuits brewing that have a decent shot. The NFA’s authority is based on Article I tax powers, and that setting the fee at $0 effectively removes them from the NFA. The government’s argument is that since the dealers still have to pay taxes, it still applies. That’s a bit of a stretch, but also doesn’t address the question of homemade items at all.
That is hopefully actually changing soon.
Congress just removed the fee for the for a silencer, SBR, and SBS tax stamp as on January 1. Now there’s gonna be some lawsuits to remove them from the NFA entirely because NFA items are regulated through the $200 tax stamp.
And even without a lawsuit, you can now form 1 (stamp for a home-manufacturered NFA itm) a silencer with no fees, so you can 3d print them super cheap. Just wait a few weeks for the paperwork before you hit “print”.
Next month at this rate.
You really wanna fuck around with us?
We chose a career where we spend 50 hours a week explaining to developers that water runs downhill. We’re crazy motherfuckers who are always about to snap.
Running to my department head
“Shit! The bastards figured it out. They don’t need us!”
My diploma is a piece of paper that says I got a degree.
If I hang it up on someone else’s wall, that doesn’t transfer the degree and they aren’t suddenly qualified to perform stormwater discharge analysis.
The Negros are and will remain Negros, a nascent human form from the tropics, rudimentary organs on the body of white society. Instead of founding an intellectual elite, America has established a mulatto studfarm.
Yowza
I ate the onion bigtime on this one.
That’s not quite it either. It’s 60% of independent voters, so it also doesn’t include MAGA. It’s the swing voters, which happen to be the only voters who really matter.
But, fortunately for the GOP, they’re also easily swayed by the “both sides” narratives and can be disillusioned into staying home instead of voting. It’s why voter turnout is one of the biggest predictors in whether the Dems or the GOP will win an election. Independent voters have trended more leftward in recent elections because the GOP is fucking insane.
If I threaten my doctor, can I make him give me his degree and start practicing medicine?
Real ID isn’t exclusive to US citizens. Non-citizen permanent residents and people here on temporary legal status such as work or student visas, DACA, etc get Real ID cards as well.
If they come to kill me they’re gonna kill me. I can’t stop that. But that doesn’t mean I should make it easy for them.
If we reached the point where they came into my house I’d be fucked no matter what, so I’d take as many as I could with me. No use in making my death meaningless.
A camper or boat trailer large enough to need a big truck to pull it will already have is own brakes.
The biggest reason for a heavy vehicle aside from the pulling ability is that the trailer can overpower the main vehicle when quickly changing lanes due to the whiplash caused by the sometimes 20+ ft distance between the front (steering) wheels of the truck and the hitch. It’s actually why there have been a few experiments with 4-wheel steering for trucks over the years.
A remote towing vehicle would be able to significantly reduce the distance between the steering and the hitch.