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    Is it legal to have 2 copies of your driver's license?

    In Texas (for the OP): Texas Transportation Code TRANSP § 521.451(a)(4) is the section which prohibits possession of more than one valid licence or certificate. So (not a lawyer, legal advice is worth what you pay for it, etc.) one might infer that possession of their expired licence in...
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    Is it legal to have 2 copies of your driver's license?

    That would be determined by the entity (state government) issuing and legislating the use of licences. In Alberta, there is specific legislation prohibiting possession of more than one physical licence.
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    Questions for any general contractors

    You could always structure a contract with penalties for missed milestone/overall completion dates. Whether you could find a good contractor who would agree to those terms is another story.
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    Buying a washer/dryer set from Costco

    Everyone's financial situation is different, but I think it's fair to say for most people who have a place to put a washer and dryer that there are better ways to make or save the cost of delivery and disposal. Then again, I get taking pride in DIY. It's been a decade and a half, so...
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    VW Buzz news

    Personally, I'm often the guy clearly annoying a non-negligible chunk of the driving population by leaving a couple seconds of space between myself and the vehicle ahead. It's actually in an interesting experiment to leave more than a couple car lengths in traffic - people are conditioned to see...
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    VW Buzz news

    Thoughts for the one-pedal absolutists: You're driving toward a controlled intersection. Your direction is currently green, but cues/instinct tell you it's stale and could flip yellow at any moment. There's a car in front of you, and you're following at a distance which neither too much nor too...
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    Most braking done by the front wheels?

    Physics takes over under hard braking with or without ABS, in that nose-down pitch will transfer weight to the front tires. As others have mentioned, that de-weights the rears, reducing usable braking force back there. The system(s) may decide to modulate braking force delivered to the front...
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    BUILD America 250 Act - EV Tax

    While I don't currently own an EV, I can see it happening in the medium term. I don't think it's unreasonable for EV owners to contribute to road maintenance via taxes. Given the option, I would prefer a fixed cost tax attached to registration renewal. The government will get their money...
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    Ford Teases New Bronco

    Understood. I applied North American context when I said left turn. The equivalent across the pond would be a right turn - same problem, different side.
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    2024-2026 VW Atlas 2.0

    Fair - any competent mechanic who knows what they don't know - and takes the time to get the answers in those cases - could handle it. Unfortunately, it's been my experience that even with mom and pop shops with great local reputations, that's just not reliably the case. Good, truly...
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    Ford Teases New Bronco

    Making the snorkel standard is an interesting choice. In the dusty Outback, I get it - but that's got to take a significant chunk out of one's field of view when looking for pedestrians before making a left turn. "...while a bash plate and additional coverage protect the underbody." Good thing.
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    2024-2026 VW Atlas 2.0

    This is what I did with our Tiguan. Jobs like brakes, seasonal tire swaps, and oil changes are easy enough in a garage with a jack and jack stands - but adjusting fluid levels under the car without a lift isn't my idea of a good time. If I still lived 3 hours away from the closest euro-focused...
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    Wind Turbines Raise Local Surface Temperatures

    I certainly don't claim to have any expertise in the areas discussed in the article, but it doesn't pass the smell test as being balanced or unbiased. It specifically focuses on inverted conditions, while avoiding the topic of non-inverted (standard) atmospheric conditions. Inversion isn't rare...
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    Googlebook, my new computer!

    Besides security updates on an unsupported phone...
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    Frontier plane hits trespasser at Denver

    That's a shame.
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    Is this really a regulator AND a rectifier?

    I don't see any reason to doubt that it performs both functions. Disassembly would tell us definitively. A bit of googling suggests this is a common method of packaging rectification (full bridge rectifier) followed by voltage regulation using a thyristor used to shunt excess voltage to ground...
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    How do you guys manage tool batteries and charging?

    I also try to manually stop charging batteries (various DeWalt, and the pair of 10Ah EGO 56V for my snowblower) at ~80%, unless I know I'm going to use them within a day or so. The smaller capacity batteries that came with my drill/driver set don't have SOC indicators, so they just get charged...
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    The industry is WRONG: your best tires belong up front

    I started to look for examples where you focused on steering related issues in your OP, but it's so frequent that I would create a sea of bold text. I no longer suspect you are trolling.
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    The industry is WRONG: your best tires belong up front

    Post #13 addresses the rotation issue. In the case of FWD, the only way for the wear of the newer tires to catch up to the partially worn rears is to install new on the front. This may go against the objective of avoiding oversteer, but that's the nature of compromise. The alternative is that...
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    The industry is WRONG: your best tires belong up front

    You're projecting your high self-appraisal of your own driving abilities onto the general public. The fact is we do need to play nanny. If you disagree after watching a few dash cam crash compilations, I don't know what to tell you.
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