Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

On 2025-06-27 11:21, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-27 18:48, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-27 00:06, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-26 17:34, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-26 01:51, Carlos E.R. wrote:

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This isn't about whether someone wants to use these
features, or whether they're important to a specific user.
It's about the objective fact of what the physical hardware
allows the device to do.
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Think of it like a car. A car with a tow hitch has the
capability to tow a trailer. A car without one doesn't. Even
if someone never tows a trailer, the car with the hitch
still possesses that extra capability that the other one
lacks. It's not about whether they use it, but whether the inherent functionality is present.

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A tow hitch has the capability to damage greatly another car
when reversing in a parking, and you have to pay expensive
damages. So, it makes parking more difficult and dangerous.

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What's ironic here is that there are essentially no trucks sold
today that actually have a hitch.
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The have a receiver that the buyer can use to ADD the actual
hitch, and those hitches can be of multiple types.
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Just like you can use the USB port of a smartphone for multiple purposes.
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:-

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Yes, that's nice. I was rather thinking of normal cars that can
tow a caravan. Normal cars don't come with those receivers. I
don't know if they can be installed.
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They can be...
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It very much depends on demand for a particular vehicle and how
heavy a trailer you want to tow.
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To my shock, even my BMW 135i (the one that Arlen insists I don't
have 🙂) has a receiver you can get for it:
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<https://www.curtmfg.com/part/11184>

 Interesting. Maybe modern cars come prepared, just in case.

I'd say it's more likely that the aftermarket manufacturers are resourceful.
I wouldn't swear to it without disassembling the rear bumper of my beemer (or is it "bimmer"... ...oh wait! I really don't care which!), but I'd guess that Curt Manufacturing simply designed the receiver frame to bolt on to existing locations for the bumper's actual sub-structure...
...and it turns out that I don't need to guess!
<https://assets.curtmfg.com/masterlibrary/11184/installsheet/11184_INS.pdf>
Although, I suppose one could argue that the only reason the mounting studs for the bumper sub-structure are long enough to accommodate the mounting plates of the receiver frame AND the nuts to secure it is that BMW did so deliberately for this usage.
😊

 Here, with the normal B license, we can only tow 750Kg or less. Or, more
weight, as long as the total car + tow don't exceed 3500Kg. To tow more,
we need another license.

I'm not sure what the limit here in BC is, but I tow my racing car...
(The one Arlen claims I can't really have and don't really drive because I know that a catenary curve has nothing to do with road racing lines through corners. 😉)
...in an enclosed trailer where the whole loaded trailer probably weighs 1250kg behind a pickup truck (soon to be a van) weighing 3000kg or so...
...and I've never heard anyone say I needed a different class of license.
Just checked: I can tow a trailer weighing up to 4,600kg GVW (total weight of trailer and load).