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Is this the culmination of something I heard proposed a year or three back, I wonder?
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I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It looks to polished to be real... but if it is. *drools*.
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Be handy if it dropped down while doing 90 in the outer lane with unrestrained kids in the back don`t you think?
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Judging by the way disabled-access ramps work on modern buses, this door will cause trouble and either refuse to open or refuse to shut after a while. Things like that are fine when they are new, but soon begin to judder and graunch once the weather has got at the linkages. And quite a small dent in the undershield will prevent the door from opening at all.
For the popemobile only.
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Yep, another piece of technology that will put an otherwise good car beyond economical repair when it packs up after six years.
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I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're easily pleased. I'd be happier with two.
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I can't work out if it's real. The door must be very slim to slide away like that.
JH
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I have seen this idea before.
It should never get type approval.
Just imagine how anyone would get out in an accident. Virtually any impact at all will distort the mechanism and people be trapped inside. Then add into the equaition, fire, immersed in water etc.
A small modification, allowing it to work for back seats only would be of interset for vips etc, but then the security risk would be too high as it exposes all the insides to any person wanting to be a security risk !
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My understanding was this was only ever a commissioned prototype by GM just to see how it might work. I believe one of the prototypes was on ebay recently - one door worked the other did not. I think one of the problems is the amount of space that the mechanism took underneath the car and also that alot of the mechanism would be exposed to general muck and salt under the car.
It's funny isn't it how back in the 60s/70s all scifi films had bizarre electric doors that moved apart often in odd ways and yet other than on shops and offices we still have manual mechanical doors everywhere. I always thought when I was small that within 30 years we'd have powered everything. a car these days is remarkably similar to the one in the 70s with just a few bells and whistles on...nothing massively radical eg gull wings or mad shapes. If anything some 70s cars were more mad than those now eg TR7, GSA, CX, Honda S600 etc.
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