What Side Should The Door Be On?

[toxotes]

Right and wrong LOL

I want to see you righties struggle with a left hand shifter like I struggled with your stupid scissors in kindergarten

I vote for the door on the other side, and I have 11% backing LOL

 

[wayne kemp]

Left is why the world is always in trouble and why NASCAR can never get past the start/finish line.
Right on I say.
There is a reason why America drives on the right side of the road, majority rule.

 

[wheaters]

It would be about time something was made for the "superior" left handed people

You righties screwed this whole world up

I love Thursday morning sarcasm.

Fair enough, speaking as another left handed driver, let's get that gearshift put on the left! or even better, be fair to everyone, put it in the middle and have doors on both sides.

 

[goldwing06]

Since all cars made in the U.S. have their transmission levers on the right side, drivers are selecting the gear with their right hand. How are you going to put a door where the gear lever goes? If you want a door on the right side then it would force the shift lever to the left. If that happened boy would you hear the howling and complaining - and rightly so. In this vehicle the door can ONLY be on the left side.

some of us still remember the '55 dodge/chrysler/plymouth with the push button shifter on the left side of the dash, or the edsel with the shift bottons in the center of the steering wheel. neither location developed a large following, but that was before the days of social media.

 

[goldwing06]

Left is why the world is always in trouble and why NASCAR can never get past the start/finish line.
Right on I say.
There is a reason why America drives on the right side of the road, majority rule.

actually, it has to do with engine rotation. the drivers weight on the left balances out the engines torque wanting to lift the left side. british engines originally rotated in the opposit direction, so driver on opposit side. wonder how packard overcame this issue when they started manufacturing the merlin/rolls royce for aircraft?

 

[wheaters]

actually, it has to do with engine rotation. the drivers weight on the left balances out the engines torque wanting to lift the left side. british engines originally rotated in the opposit direction, so driver on opposit side. wonder how packard overcame this issue when they started manufacturing the merlin/rolls royce for aircraft?

Didn't make any difference because they made the driver sit in the middle of the airframe. Then RR developed the Griffon engine which fooled everybody because it rotated in the opposite direction.

In my early RAF days I flew with a "mature" navigator called Jim Emtage. Jim was a brilliant navigator and he also wrote some of the RAF navigation theory manuals, he could tell you all about the finer details of transverse Mercator projection, apparent drift of gyros, coriolis effect, you name it he knew it.

He once told me he had begun his RAF career as a pilot. He flew a Merlin powered trainer called the Balliol. It was known to suffer from severe engine torque roll at low airspeed, mainly due to its short wingspan. During his night flying training he got his landing approach wrong and decided to go around from a very low altitude.Unfortunately he had let the airspeed bleed right back. When he opened the throttle on the Merlin the Balliol torque rolled through at least 720 degrees over the runway. He managed to recover (mainly by luck because he became totally disorientated in the dark) but it shook him up so badly he never flew as pilot again.

Thankfully the Elio engine won't have anywhere near enough power to cause torque roll, but even if it did, seeing as the engine is transversely fitted, you wouldn't know!

 

[ElioDigger]

i would put it on the driver's side....

 

[#491]

Right and wrong LOL

I want to see you righties struggle with a left hand shifter like I struggled with your stupid scissors in kindergarten

I vote for the door on the other side, and I have 11% backing LOL

What would you do with a bolt action rifle?

 

[CompTrex]

So there is a thread on here about what side the door should be on. There is a thread on here about having to open the door to get your burger at MickyD's. Can you imagine having to get out of your car on the right side and walk around the vehicle to get your sandwich? I know, park and walk in. I get it. But for perhaps toll booths, or guard stations...
I'm just saying that the people on the two threads should get together before they petition Mr. Elio to modify his design.

 

[#491]

So there is a thread on here about what side the door should be on. There is a thread on here about having to open the door to get your burger at MickyD's. Can you imagine having to get out of your car on the right side and walk around the vehicle to get your sandwich? I know, park and walk in. I get it. But for perhaps toll booths, or guard stations...
I'm just saying that the people on the two threads should get together before they petition Mr. Elio to modify his design.

ATM machines would suck just as bad.