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by JoeAltmaier
5518 days ago
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...windy? Open the door just a little and squeeze out without the entire car contents blowing into Kentucky? No way. Grandma likes to go anywhere alone? Nope, unless she can enlist a random stranger to hoist her out. Car battery dead? Maybe the door opens, no way it will close. Everybody doesn't have this cool door? You still get door dents just the same. And again, raining? Better have a mop and bucket to clean the rear seat when the kids take 2 minutes to get unbuckled, find their umbrella, open it INSIDE the car, struggle to close it again, finally get it closed, get out of the car, forgot their lunchbox... |
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In your complaints here, it's pretty clear you aren't even trying to sort out a reasoned view at all.
I mean, look at these: why would more blow out of a car with a sliding door than, say, a minivan with a (much larger) sliding door? Why wouldn't Grandma be unable to use grips at the top & side of the door (or: maybe cars targeting aged drivers don't need to switch to this kind of door? There are plenty of other target markets)? Why would the door be uncloseable with a dead battery (can't we assume it would be counterweighted or on springs, to minimize motor requirements)? About door dents: if there were any significant number of these doors around, my own car would be that much less likely to be dented -- plus, I'm not keen on denting other people's doors. For the whole final scenario with kids in the rain -- er... just don't open your door until the kids are ready. You're sitting right there, and you control the door (unlike if they have their own door in the back).
But what's the impulse that's driving you & other commenters to just knock down the idea as quickly as possible, rather than explore it?
It's not my idea; I don't have any stake in the game, but if I notice problems with someone else's idea, my first thought is "are there ways to fix that, and are you implementing these solutions".