Audi trying to reduce doorings

[screenman]

MOD NOTE:
@screenman's post has been re-instated - the double negative was missed initially.
Apologies to screenman.

Thank you.

 

[Scoosh]

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I've got a better idea: why not have all cars with sliding doors, like taxis.
Only thing is, sliding doors or not, alarms or not, you could still collide with the door opener instead of the actual door.
What is the range of sensitivity of this alarm?
Will it sense a cyclist coming downhill at 30mph (not me ), by the time you listen to the alarm the cyclist could be ... at the door!

 

[Drago]

I got great idea. Now, I reckon, and hear me out, Audi drivers should just stop being d***s and just use their eyes? Clever eh?

 

[mustang1]

I'm always concerned with the cars where the mirrors auto fold when you switch the engine off. Inevetibly the driver or passenger is likely to come out when the engine is switched off.

Having said that, I suppose if we as cyclists see a car who's wing mirrors have just filed up, give that car a wide berth. Actually now I'm beginning to think that might even be a safety feature.

 

[Tommy2]

The mirrors fold in when you lock the car.

 

[ufkacbln]

Audi....

For when your driving is too bad for a BMW

 

[screenman]

Personally I feel the Audi is a nice well made car and is on my list for next car. Does that mean I have to pack up cycling as I will as some of you think be joining the enemy.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Personally I feel the Audi is a nice well made car and is on my list for next car. Does that mean I have to pack up cycling as I will as some of you think be joining the enemy.

Of course you don't have to pack up cycling ... We'll just shun you.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Bottom line - there will be an option to switch the damned thing off. Let me guess - the sensor is pretty blxxdy thick and will lock up the doors at any opportunity.

Perhaps to cater for the driver of the enormous great Audi I watched in a pub car park last week. Over ten minutes it took to get his great black beast reversed into a space between another Audi and a Merc.
And once in? He couldn't open his door wide enough to get out! Marooned! Fat arse stuck!

Thick as ............

Berk took another five minutes to get out, drive round looking for a space .......... and roared off in high dudgeon.

It's the same at my daughters School
Good grief, sometimes it's crazy

For example, I picked her up on Tuesday, between my arrival, waiting for her, & departing (about 20 minutes), the fancy motors included;
3 x Audi Q7
2 x Range Rover L405 (the nasty looking present model)
1 x Bentley Flying Spur!!! (the 4-door saloon version of the Continental GT coupe)
2 x Jaguar XJ (not seen the new model close up before, they are big!)
Heck!, sometimes there's even a Maserati Quattroporte

There was even a B*W that took my attention, & it's probably the only one since the 2002 Turbo that has, someone was driving an i8



Two that take my eye when they come are run of the mills; a Skoda Octavia Scout (the car, not the 'school-run mum' driving - honest!!!) & a Morris 1000 saloon

Personally I feel the Audi is a nice well made car and is on my list for next car

Oh, you mean an overpriced Skoda?

(says the man, very contented with his Octavia Tdi estate)

 

[Drago]

Unfortunately, nationally collated warranty data shows them to be completely unremarkable in terms of reliability, so i don't see by what measure they are "well made."

 

[sheddy]

A shame that the correct method of opening a car door from the inside (by using ones left hand so your torso & head automatically rotate for a proper view) is not taught by parents and not mentioned in the Highway Code.

 

[Illaveago]

I have noticed that there seems to be two types of door openers. Some people just fling the door open so that it bounces on the check strap without a care in the world. These people also tend to leave the door open the longest whilst they get comfy before leaning over and closing it. The other type open the door just enough to get in, pulling the door closed as they enter, sometimes miss timing it and shutting their head between the door and the roof.

 

[screenman]

I will agree Drago reliability can be a tad variable, however being as I work on them quite a lot I like the way they feel and drive.

 

[the snail]

Yet another moton technology to remove the responsibility for others safety from the precious driver.

Roll on the driverless car, remove all responsibility from the driver I say -no more doorings, speeding, punishment passes etc etc etc.