The disadvantages seem self-evident enough to me. One can get in or out of a car, if they need to, in the time that this device takes to just get the window down (step one in lowering the door). They can do it without exposing everyone on that side of the car to the elements. Some people in the back, say, might not like being exposed to the world every time the driver has to step out, as at a gas station. The whole car would fill with cold in the wintertime every time someone got in or out! Ever haul kids? How long would they keep their hands/necks with this irresistable challenge? And, last but not least, would have to call someone to extract you from the car when this thing picked up a rock and jammed or sustained a bump to the mechanism, or does it come with an escape hatch? I notice that the copyright on the video is 2007. It didn't exactly take off in the five years since then! Jim
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote: > ---- David Milo <dellaone@GMAIL.COM> wrote: >> Just lovely in a driving rain or snowstorm. > > Hmmm........ . How would that be different from with a standard type door? Open the door, get wet, whether the door opens in the normal manner or folds under the car. > > I'm not saying that I think it is good idea, or that I am going to rush out and buy one. I'm just wondering how your particular observation points up a disadvantage. > > mcneely > >> >> Dave >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM, george jannini <georgejoann@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> > < http://www.flixxy.com/high-tech-car-door.htm > >> > >> > Nice alternative to a rolling door, but kinda impossible to adapt to our >> > front door's wheel arch, it is. >> > >> > Geo/ATL >> > > > -- > David McNeely |
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