[caltaxed]

If the door cracks open, the wind catches the front facing door and flys open. If the driver is hanging onto the handle he gets pulled out of the car.

They must have some type of interlock feature on the door now to fix this problem.

[skr]

Thank you for the explanation.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Plus if you open door into traffic while getting out and a car hits it, the door can crush you. Baffles me why they made it like this. I use drive a taxi in New york city and passengers use to open doors into traffic all the time and cars would hit the doors ripping them off. If it was hinged like this it would have slammed on the passenger killing them.

[Hot Tabasco]

Additionally, there was no structural integrity on the side since the latching post only extended half way up the door.......

[dangus]

>> They must have some type of interlock feature on the door now to fix this problem. <<

They do.

[BBB333]

“If the driver is hanging onto the handle he gets pulled out of the car.”

Not the driver (impossible) but the back seat occupant.

We had a ‘64 growing up and I was never intimated by the doors at all, loved the electric wind-wings!

As mentioned here many pickups have these doors as well as the 2003-2011 Honda Element. In these vehicles the rear door could not open unless the front door was open. Very difficult to get a rear passenger out of a Honda Element in a parking lot...Had a 2003 model.

Happy new year!