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Open doors on a Chrysler Airflow. Car doors are designed to facilitate ingress and egress by car passengers. [1]Unlike other types of doors, the exterior side of the vehicle door contrasts in its design and finish from its interior side (the interior part is typically equipped with a door card (in British English) or a door panel (in American English) that has decorative and functional features.
An anti-intrusion bar or beam is a passive safety device, installed in most cars and other ground vehicles, which must protect passengers from side impacts. [1] Side impacts are particularly dangerous for two reasons: a) the location of impact is very close to the passenger, who can be immediately reached by the impacting vehicle; b) in many side-impact accidents, the impacting vehicle may be ...
Opens normally like a traditional van sliding door, but unlike most sliding doors where the track is on the exterior of the vehicle, this type has it inside and on the side of the door itself. This allows the exterior to remain clean in design and yet the door can slide outside past the trailing edge of the car.
SIPS consists of a reinforced lower sill panel, "B pillar" and reinforcements with energy absorbing honeycomb materials [7] [8] inside the doors. [9] The idea is to more widely distribute the energy in a side collision across the whole side of the car rather than having the b-pillar absorb it all. [6]
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Normal car doors open out of the car's track, so they can obstruct the road or pavement when opened.This is not an issue with canopies as they open vertically. A-pillars are not necessary as there are no side doors, so the windscreen can extend from the front to the back of the car, giving the driver a field of vision of more than 180 degrees [5] and minimising blind spots.
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