Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The Disappearing Car Door

Do you tire of the same old car doors? Those bulky, swinging slugs of metal? Why, it's so last century! Are your rich friends struggling to keep up with your techno gadgets? Have you ever had the desire to make your expensive luxury vehicle look even more like a Star Trek shuttlecraft?

Now a company called Jatech has the answer for you – the Rotary Drop Door:

http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/

Step out of your car in style as you pull up to your friends, then your car door slides smoothly downward, folding underneath the car so that you can step out like a pimp and bask in their awe.

The link above has a really cool video of the doors in action. Jatech basically retrofits already-existing car designs by removing the factory-made doors and replacing them with a design that folds down and under the car body, thus they seem to disappear.

Sure, Delorian sports cars may have had those cool wing-like doors, but they never really caught on, did they? The new Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 has doors that swing upward and forward. Nice, but like the Delorian, you'd better have high ceilings in your garage. Same goes for the Ferrari Enzo, which takes up even more room. And then there's the Hungarian-made Kenguru, which only has a back hatch (and room for only one wheelchair-bound driver!). But this is the first car door design that is made to "disappear" into the car body that I know of.

Jatech doesn't reveal the cost of retrofitting your vehicle for their rotary drop door design, but I'm wondering how many Smart Cars, for instance, you could purchase for the same cost (each Smart Car starts at about $11,000).

And what benefit is this amazing miracle of auto design? Oh, sure, the makers say in their little video that it "saves on parking space" by removing the need for space for a swinging door, that it prevents car-door "dings", and that it makes getting in and out of the car more convenient. But let's face it, having this way cool design is just plain kick-ass, gets lots of looks, and gets you that much closer to getting laid.

Cool.


Image taken from HERE.

21 comments:

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Anonymous said...

I actually thought about this before ever seeing this video but am not excited by the idea because of rain and security. It would be very easy for a bad guy to hop in back as your wife or daughter were entering the vehicle. If you had a dog or other pet it might be hard to keep it inside every time you open the door. Hopefully the windows will lower or you would have to open the door every time you pass a toll booth or pick up a fast food order. And, it would be hard to quickly jump in or out of the car when it is raining. The front and rear interior would get wet, as would passengers, and heat and air-con would escape significantly. In the event of an accident and people are trapped inside without battery power, how would they get out? How would the first responders apply the jaws of life to rescue trapped passengers? What about elderly people that require the support of the door to get in and out of a car? If you are under assault, or if the car malfunctions, and you need to jump out to save your life, you could die waiting for the door, and that's assuming it will open while the car is operating and in motion.

Anonymous said...

If you are T-boned the vertical support pillar is not there to protect passengers from side impact and there is no support for the roof only glass which means the roof would be much more likely to collapse in a rollover.

Anonymous said...

If you are T-boned the vertical support pillar is not there to protect passengers from side impact and there is no support for the roof only glass which means the roof would be much more likely to collapse in a rollover.

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I just received the link today by email and what a great idea. Especially the reduced dings in our car doors from parking. How soon before car manufacturers really start looking at these types of revolutionary ideas? TeckoGecko Website Design Brisbane

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I don't think that the picture can be something of reference. it looks like they only took out doors and leave the car like that.

Anonymous said...

"Wheelchair bound"? Is that like, "bound and gagged"? Very offensive term.

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