[alexander_busek]

Plus if you open door into traffic while getting out and a car hits it, the door can crush you. [...] If it was hinged like this it would have slammed on the passenger killing them.

That assumes that the other vehicle is driving in the same direction, and comes up from behind.

But, with a conventional door, the same problem exists assuming that the other vehicle is driving in the opposite direction.

Regards,

[dangus]

>> But, with a conventional door, the same problem exists assuming that the other vehicle is driving in the opposite direction. <<

I think the media’s publicizing of the slang term, “suicide doors” stems from pure hatred of Ford-Lincoln-Mercury. They were never called “suicide doors,” except as a rare slang, and naming anything “suicide...” because of a safety problem long since solved is just stupid.

But, How would you get hit by a car coming THE OTHER WAY, unless the car was so totally out of control, you were probably going to get nailed by the car directly anyhow? To get hit from behind, the car that hits you needs only be a few feet to its left. To be hit from oncoming traffic, it needs to cross the entire street!

Or YOU have to be parking on the opposite side of the street, which I know gets done occasionally on some residential streets where cars can largely drive up the middle of the street because there’s rarely a car coming the other way.