Cycling UK has campaigned on the dangers of 'car
dooring' and encourages vehicle users to use theso-called 'Dutch reach' to open a car door.
Each year '
dooring' kills an average of two people and injures more than 700 - but many people have no idea what it is.
In Cambridge, MA, local transportation officials were interested in experimenting with the placement of shared lane markings at a 10-foot (3-meter) spacing from the curb to prevent
dooring, that is, when the occupant of a parked vehicle opens a door and hits an oncoming bicyclist.
Our group practice figured it was going to cost us $5,000 extra per year to tag on the extra costs to abide by OSHA, which included stupid things like double-gloving, and they wanted us to do "safety" things like two-way
dooring out of our laboratory, just crazy things.
I didn't care that much though, because door to
dooring had never been my thing.
Similarly, boundary conditions can change
dooring a nonlinear analysis.
Peters A, Perz S,
Dooring A, Stieber J, Koenig W, Wichmann HE.