[Supras] Disappearing Doors

[Dan Gyoba]

On 19 Dec 2007 at 14:37, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:

> The full demo video from the company states that they want to
> incorporate the door design from the getgo so that the proper
> structural support is included in the design.  they even show a design
> that has the door slide INTO the car but still below the floor,
> maintaining the ground clearance below the car as well as protecting
> the doors when slid down.
> 
> -Sean

Protecting the doors...  This brings up another point.  With an automatic, it's 
easy enough to force check that the car is in park  before allowing the doors 
to open, I suppose, but what about with a standard transmission.  I imagine 
that nobody wants that door to open while the car is in motion, or allow the 
car to start moving when the door is down.  (Just seems like a BAD idea to me!)

There is, however, no way to keep a driver from starting to drive away while 
the door is open.

I realise that there's no way to enforce that with regular doors either, except 
that the doors will flap around, but if the door opens with the push of a 
button, I'd really rather not have that happen accidentally!

Dan Gyoba
'89 NA 456,708 kms, Turbo swap COMPLETE
http://www.abstractconsulting.com/~dan