Moving to Texas from California, should I buy a new car in Texas or California?
Most of the answers here already hit on these points, but I’ll summarize them here…You will pay 6.25% sales tax on the difference between the new car purchase price and whatever value the dealer gives you on a trade-in. (e.g. You buy a $20,000 car and get $5,000 for your trade-in. You will pay 6.25% of $15,000 in sales tax.)Registration in most counties in Texas for a car will be around $100.Vehicles registered in the population center counties of Texas (i.e. Dallas, Houston, Ft. Worth, Austin…) are required to get an emissions test along with an overall inspection every year. A new car is exempt from both of these for the first two years. The cost of the test and inspection is something like $30–40.Most dealers will charge some amount of “administrative” fees for registering the car, etc. This is usually a couple of hundred dollars.Texas does not have any state tax incentives for purchasing an EV, etc., but there are not a lot of taxes to be reduced, anyway.I am not sure what these things cost in California.
If a car seat is not available, what is the safest way to secure a child in a car?
My understanding is that if it's absolutely necessary, you should always sit in the back with the child on your lap but not inside the seatbelt with you - in an accident, the child will be crushed between you and the belt. If you sit in the front seat, in an accident the child will go through the wind screen.You should also make sure you sit behind one of the seats not behind the gap between front bucket seats. In the event of any but the most gentle bumper bender, you will lose hold of the child and it will likely go through the windscreen.
How and where do I put my forward facing a car seat in a 2014 Chevy Silverado 2 door?
In that situation you don’t have a choice but to put it in the front seat, in most cases from my experience with vehicles like this, (only a 2000 Nissan Frontier and a 2016 ford Transit 150) there is a key hole near the passenger side you put the key in and turn the airbag off.. at that point it’s completely safe to put the child seat rear facing in the front as you don’t have a choice otherwise and that’s why manufacturers put the key hole air bag turn off in these types of vehicles where you face this issue
Is there a children's car seat that is easy to flip from forward facing to back facing?
What is the age of your grandchildren? While children don't have to face backwards past 1 year old, it is safer for them to do so for as long as possible. Even if their feet run into the back of the seat--it makes a handy foot rest.
At what point can you turn your child to face forward in a car seat in North Carolina?
The only requirement under North Carolina law is that any seat used must be used correctly according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Every car seat and booster seat has a different set of requirements for use that may include age, height, and weight requirements. Legally, a child can turn to face the front of the car as long as they meet the minimum requirements for forward-facing specified by the manufacturer (generally at least 1 year old and at least 20 pounds). However, in this case the law should be considered to be a bare minimum standard. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children are five times safer riding rear-facing than forward-facing. For best protection children should stay rear-facing until they outgrow the rear-facing seat based on weight or height. At a minimum, children should stay rear-facing until at least age 2.Source: Child Passenger Safety Law FAQs : BuckleUpNC.org
Is it legal for a child to be on an adult's lap (instead of in a child's seat) in the back seat of a car in California? Or does this apply to taxicabs only?
It may or may not be legal in a taxi and granted, on city streets, traffic is much slower, but that is actually irrelevant, because human flesh is easily damaged and young brains scrambled.As a former paramedic, I have been witness to many devastating automobile accidents. Several involved young children. Of those, several involved situations where children were not in a protective car seat designed for their height and weight.Of all the incidents in my career as a paramedic, none were more heart wrenching and gruesome.I won't go into the details, but let me say this, they provided fodder for years of nightmares.Accidents happen quickly and unexpectedly. The powerful forces involved are beyond imagination. There is no possible way that even the strongest man could effectively protect a child from severe injury and death while holding a child in their lap during an automobile accident.To have and use a car seat is not enough. It must be properly installed. If you do not feel comfortable doing this go to a local fire station and they will be more than happy to help.It is an act of love to do this properly.To answer your question directly, yes it is illegal and further it is immoral.
What would happen if I put 1920's gasoline in my modern car?
If I was able to drive back in time and had to put 1920's gasoline in my 2014 Nissan, what would happen? Would the car konk out immediately? Would it run, but poorly? Would the engine only last for so many gallons before breaking?
What's the penalty for driving a right-handed car in the U.S.?
The position of the steering wheel is no (legal) problem, but you do need to make sure that the headlight beam pattern is correct for driving on the right side of the road. Headlight beams are designed to cut off at the center of the road to avoid blinding oncoming drivers, but provide more illumination to the shoulder of the road in case there are obstacles (or animals) there that you need to avoid. Swapping sides, your headlights now illuminate the wrong area.Various solutions to the headlight beam problem exist, from things as simple as carefully-placed stickers on the headlight lens, to fully replacing the bulb and lens assembly. Failing to do something about it isn't guaranteed to get you in legal trouble, but if your lights shine in a police officer's eyes at night you may get a citation. There may also be problems if there is an inspection when you try to register the imported vehicle.
Is it illegal to drive a car with the airbags blown?
It may not be illegal per se but, as I have said many, many times in answers here in Quora and elsewhere, if something is legal it does not necessarily mean it’s a good idea. This is most definitely one of those cases; the only good idea, if the car is still capable of being driven, is to drive the car under its own power to a repair shop for airbag replacement. Be ready to ride the bus, a taxi, Uber, Lyft, or have a friend/family member take you home or to wherever else you’re going (if the repair shop is within walking distance of home, count yourself lucky!), be ready to wait, and be ready to spend a lot of money to take the car back home (unless insurance is paying for it).