[Supras] Disappearing Doors

[Sean Cavanaugh]

speed sensor.
in the demo video, they have people come to a stop, open the doors, and then 
the driver starts to drive off which forces the doors to close.
and most cars that would ever see that kind of tech would be automatics 
anyway since we all know rich people are too important to use a stickshift 
and clutch. :-p

-Sean

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From: "Dan Gyoba" <dgyoba at abstractconsulting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:09 PM
To: <Supras at supras.com>
Subject: Re: [Supras] Disappearing Doors

> 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
>
>
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