The dissapearing car door!

That is fairly cool. Some nice advantages pointed out.
 
The music reminds me of 2g1c, but awesome nonetheless. beats gull doors any day.
 
what happens if you cant remotely open them from the outside, any place for a key?
 
Keys?? Where we're going we dont need... keys...
 
A 5 year old could do a better job of their site. Are they for real?

Also, I'd love to see some side-impact tests of these doors.
 
Cool. Very cool. But, I don't like the idea of a door that can only be opened/closed by motor. I mean, what if you were in a crash or the battery was flat or something D: They should make on you can open with your hands, like.
 
That would likely be the biggest issue, is the structural strength...I suppose they could have it so there are horizontal cross bars that extend into the fenders of the cars for increased strength while the doors are up...but hey, doors are the weakest point on cars as is...
 
That must add some serious weight to the motor in question. Interesting to see if they can get it to catch on where BMW failed with the Z1 (though this looks a bit more advanced than that system).

And who the hell pronounces Coupe as "coop"?
 
Ridge said:
That would likely be the biggest issue, is the structural strength...I suppose they could have it so there are horizontal cross bars that extend into the fenders of the cars for increased strength while the doors are up...but hey, doors are the weakest point on cars as is...
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Maybe, but if you're in a crash you don't want the doors to be stuck in place. You want to be able to get them open easily, even though the car's damaged.
 
Bob_Marley said:
And who the hell pronounces Coupe as "coop"?
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I can't even imagine how else can you pronounce it. As for the door itself, it probably doesn't need a huge motor. If I designed it I would make sure that it compresses some sort of air cylinder or power spring as it goes down (using it's own weight), so that it takes very little force to open.
 
lePobz said:
It's always annoying when Americans take our words, change them, and then try to lecture us on how to speak English.
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Yeah...we take your words and change them but most of us know you speak differently...most of us don't care.





Cool door, I can see some issues, and to be honest, I don't think this is worth the extra...oh...1500USD(?) it will likely cost us.
 
lePobz said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupé

You see the accent on the e?

That means it's pronounced coo-pay.

It's always annoying when Americans take our words, change them, and then try to lecture us on how to speak English.
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wow, that's weird.

I was talking to some brits the other day. They made fun of me because I called "trousers" "pants", "lorries" "trucks", and "Maths" "Math".
 
ffs

if brits are so ****ing excellent at speaking english, and they ****ing invented it and all that, how come you don't speak the same as you did in shakespeare's time? I guess it changed, or some crazy shit like that. You know we're in different ****ing countries, right? Different time zones and shit? Maybe we aren't going to talk the same way. Maybe I don't want to sound like some dipshit cockney, or liverpudlian, or whatever the ****.
 
I remember having a great conversation with a couple brits on the trans-atlantic flight.

Frankly, I rather enjoyed it. Love the accent (Dunno if our American accent is pleasant or not) but yes, there are bits of European English that seem odd, but thats only because we grew up hearing it called different things.

I must confess though, I do get ticked at certain words, generally ones with a French spelling (quiche comes to mind) where they are spelled so oddly opposed to how they are pronounced... oh well...it's a moot point. It's different forms of the same language both evolving into something different.
 
A2597 said:
I remember having a great conversation with a couple brits on the trans-atlantic flight.

Frankly, I rather enjoyed it. Love the accent (Dunno if our American accent is pleasant or not) but yes, there are bits of European English that seem odd, but thats only because we grew up hearing it called different things.

I must confess though, I do get ticked at certain words, generally ones with a French spelling (quiche comes to mind) where they are spelled so oddly opposed to how they are pronounced... oh well...it's a moot point. It's different forms of the same language both evolving into something different.
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If people just talk and be cool, that's fine, but when people bring up at every opportunity at how Americans are so stupid because they can't talk properly it's really ****ing irritating.
 
Coo-pay? That's some retarded shit, there.

Cool doors, though. There needs to be a manual release for the thing, though.
 
Isn't it pronounced as "coop-per"?

Godron said:
Maybe, but if you're in a crash you don't want the doors to be stuck in place. You want to be able to get them open easily, even though the car's damaged.
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Anyway, even the car doors we are using now cannot be opened in serious car crash, since the hinge is likely to be distorted upon impact. So this should not be a concern as long as the car window can be opened. But if the car went out of power or the electric car-key is lost, how can the disappearing door be opened?
 
lePobz said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupé

You see the accent on the e?

That means it's pronounced coo-pay.

It's always annoying when Americans take our words, change them, and then try to lecture us on how to speak English.
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"A coup? (from the French verb couper, to cut)"

Your words? Really? That's not what it says in the article. Stop bitching about Americans stealing words that you stole from the French.
 
We're not talking about serious incidents, though, we're talking about power failure of the car. This happens a lot for any number of reasons- there has to be some manual way to remove yourself from the car.
 
theotherguy said:
wow, that's weird.

I was talking to some brits the other day. They made fun of me because I called "trousers" "pants", "lorries" "trucks", and "Maths" "Math".
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Who the hell calls math "maths"? Ive lived in three states so far, two in the north east, and one in the deep south, and never heard it called "maths"

Anyways, what words always confuse me are Corp (core?), Sergeant (sargent?), and corporal (corpral?) buffet (buffay?). Why have letters in words where they're not even pronounced, and even worse, when they're supposed to be pronounced like a different letter??
 
Pesmerga said:
We're not talking about serious incidents, though, we're talking about power failure of the car. This happens a lot for any number of reasons- there has to be some manual way to remove yourself from the car.
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The front page of their website states that you can manually open and close it.

Cheomesh said:
Cool door, I can see some issues, and to be honest, I don't think this is worth the extra...oh...1500USD(?) it will likely cost us.
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$1500 would be a steal for this. Everyone and their uncle would get it at that price. With all of the custom modified bodywork, and the small quantities I would guess more like $25000.
 
Dan said:
The front page of their website states that you can manually open and close it.



$1500 would be a steal for this. Everyone and their uncle would get it at that price. With all of the custom modified bodywork, and the small quantities I would guess more like $25000.
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Hm...well, to be honest, I know little of cars and how much new things for them cost. I was, however, referring to an assembly model, not a retro-fit.
 
Krynn72 said:
Who the hell calls math "maths"? Ive lived in three states so far, two in the north east, and one in the deep south, and never heard it called "maths"
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Maths is the abbreviation of mathematics. Note the S on the end. I think that's why, anyway.


Krynn72 said:
Anyways, what words always confuse me are Corp (core?), Sergeant (sargent?), and corporal (corpral?) buffet (buffay?). Why have letters in words where they're not even pronounced, and even worse, when they're supposed to be pronounced like a different letter??
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A good one is Colonel (Ker-nel)
 
Krynn72 said:
Who the hell calls math "maths"? Ive lived in three states so far, two in the north east, and one in the deep south, and never heard it called "maths"

Anyways, what words always confuse me are Corp (core?), Sergeant (sargent?), and corporal (corpral?) buffet (buffay?). Why have letters in words where they're not even pronounced, and even worse, when they're supposed to be pronounced like a different letter??
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You can blame the French for buffet.
 
Krynn72 said:
Who the hell calls math "maths"? Ive lived in three states so far, two in the north east, and one in the deep south, and never heard it called "maths"

Anyways, what words always confuse me are Corp (core?), Sergeant (sargent?), and corporal (corpral?) buffet (buffay?). Why have letters in words where they're not even pronounced, and even worse, when they're supposed to be pronounced like a different letter??
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They were pretty much all nicked from the french, which is why they're pronouced differently to how they are spelled. Oh, and Corp is spelled Corps, just for added confusion.
 
Krynn72 said:
Who the hell calls math "maths"? Ive lived in three states so far, two in the north east, and one in the deep south, and never heard it called "maths"

Anyways, what words always confuse me are Corp (core?), Sergeant (sargent?), and corporal (corpral?) buffet (buffay?). Why have letters in words where they're not even pronounced, and even worse, when they're supposed to be pronounced like a different letter??
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I was saying the British called it "maths" which confused the hell out of me.
 
Bob_Marley said:
And who the hell pronounces Coupe as "coop"?
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I would burst out laughing if somebody pronounced it like that. I would also conveniently be drinking hot coffee at the same time.
 
Never actually heard "maths" before I used it sarcastically on a forum once.

Addendum: "Coupe" with the accent over the E sounds retarded in an extreme.
 
Godron said:
Cool. Very cool. But, I don't like the idea of a door that can only be opened/closed by motor. I mean, what if you were in a crash or the battery was flat or something D: They should make on you can open with your hands, like.
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They come equipped with ejector seat too!
 
If you don't like words like quiche, wait until you hear how we pronounce Lieutenant.

BTW, the American version of English was most likely changed around the time of the revolution (or terrorist uprising as we know it in Great Britain), to distance the stolen colonies from the Empire.

Mind you judging by who you voted to lead our stolen colonies, we probably ended up with the better deal.
 
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