# Cars and suicide doors

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-and-suicide-doors/798522>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 10, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-and-suicide-doors/798522 "2017-10-10T22:39:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-and-suicide-doors/798522/21 "2017-10-11T20:15:50Z")

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> [@Aspidistra](#):
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> My favorite bit of the wikipedia article
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> “Popularized in the custom car trade, the term is avoided by major automobile manufacturers…”
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> Gosh, really? You don’t say!

Well, it took them a long time to get everyone to call it a “steering wheel”, replacing the then more-common term “rib-anvil”.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-and-suicide-doors/798522/22 "2017-10-12T03:02:43Z")

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> [@Flyer](#):
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> Seriously??
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> I thought that the fact that suicide doors make getting in and out (especially out) easier was so self-evident that I wouldn’t need to elaborate.

Not if people in both the front & back seats are trying to get out at the same time\* – then these doors force them into the same space, and they get in each others’ way. Unlike conventional doors, where each person gets out into the space behind their own door.

\*And that is most of the time – generally, everybody gets out once the vehicle arrives at a destination.

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