📰 Auto News Ford develops anti door ding technology

[Dasfinc]

Why has no one does this before? Seems impossibly simple...

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2011/09/ford-develops-nifty-pop-up-door-edge.html

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[blakbearddelite]

This feature should become required by law on all vehicles, like seatbelts.

 

[Intel]

How can they give or receive door dings if they never leave the garage?

Seems like a cool idea would be a great help to my current parking situation.

 

[Pressure Ratio]

There is also development of paint, made with living organisms, that "fixes" paint chips and door dings. With heat the paint actually "flows" back together to fill the blemish. They said it could do it in about a half of an hour in direct sun light.

 

[radioguy6]

Pretty clever idea for the careless.

"How many times have you hit your vehicle's doors on an adjacent car or a wall?" never... I have respect for other people's property as well as my own.

 

[SirMarco]

Didn't Saturn have something very close to this years back? I remember this because I knew someone with the car.

 

[greasy]

Pretty clever idea for the careless.

"How many times have you hit your vehicle's doors on an adjacent car or a wall?" never... I have respect for other people's property as well as my own.

x 10000000000000000000000000

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Saturn had plastic doors that supposedly couldn't dent.

Not sure on a little contraption like this though

 

[Dasfinc]

Pretty clever idea for the careless.

"How many times have you hit your vehicle's doors on an adjacent car or a wall?" never... I have respect for other people's property as well as my own.

I'm extremely careful, Didn't stop my 9 year old sister from opening the back door of my car into the side of a Mitsu Lancer years ago....

 

[The Broken Regal]

Pretty clever idea for the careless.

"How many times have you hit your vehicle's doors on an adjacent car or a wall?" never... I have respect for other people's property as well as my own.

yup yup

no need to spend millions of dollars to create anti-door ding technology

its called having respect for others stuff :smile:

 

[Dasfinc]

yup yup

no need to spend millions of dollars to create anti-door ding technology

its called having respect for others stuff :smile:

Again... You can have all the respect in the world, doesn't mean others will...

 

[The Broken Regal]

I understand that, just merely x2-3ing on the fact that ford wouldnt need to spend all this money if people were just a little more careful lol

 

[muskie]

Again... You can have all the respect in the world, doesn't mean others will...

This xEleventy-Billion

Much like driving. I know I can drive it is just everyone else that scares the crap out of me. :thumbsdown:

 

[DanJ]

Saturn had plastic doors that supposedly couldn't dent.

Not sure on a little contraption like this though

I remember being 8 or 9 years old at the Saturn dealership and they had a test door they let me jump on.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

So this prevents YOU from giving other people dings, assuming you are an jerk who doens't care, or just that negligent. Kids, sure, that helps cause they don't think of stuff like that.

But that doesn't stop other people from dinging your car, and MOST of them won't have this.

 

[turtleman]

Pretty clever idea for the careless.

"How many times have you hit your vehicle's doors on an adjacent car or a wall?" never... I have respect for other people's property as well as my own.

Fo'real. I got like 6ft doors and I've never hit anything. It's an ancient trick called being careful. If you got a kid in hte car, remind them to be careful when they are gettin out close to cars and whatnot.

So this prevents YOU from giving other people dings, assuming you are an jerk who doens't care, or just that negligent. Kids, sure, that helps cause they don't think of stuff like that.

But that doesn't stop other people from dinging your car, and MOST of them won't have this.

You're right about most people not having it but that's just the perpetuating theory. If no one comes along and starts putting these in their cars, it won't have any oppertunity to become a norm for cars.

 

[GOON]

shape memory alloys! learned a little bit about them in my material science class last year.

 

[pbdevastator]

All this being careful talk. Didn't see anyone touch base on what if your a drunk passenger or drunk people get in or out of the car next to you?

 

[Dan00Hawk]

Had the wind swing the door out of my woman's hand into an adjacent car once... Even if you're careful, something like that can be unexpected and not enough time to react.