What are suicide doors on a car and why are they so called?

Question

What are suicide doors on a car and why are they so called?

Answer 1

A suicide door is a car door that is hinged on the trailing edge, the edge closer to the rear of the vehicle.

The term reflects a perceived increased danger of the door falling open if it becomes unlatched while the car is moving.

Answer 2

the door opens backwards. they're called that because if the open while moving the will fall off the door.

Answer 3

Doors that open either straight up (like a DeLorean) or out and up (like a Lamborghini)

So called because someone could easily jump out while the vehicle is still moving

If you try to open a regular car door at high speed the wind will simply force the door closed again

Answer 4

Glenn F,   those are gull-wing doors



Suicide doors are hinged at the rear.

Answer 5

suicide doors is when the doors on the front open normal

but the two doors in the back open in the opposite direction

idk why theyre called that tho

Answer 6

they doors that open to us the wrong way round as far as i know but could be wrong

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_doo...

Answer 8

Suicide doors refer to car doors that open in the opposite of the regular direction - hinges are at the back and the front of the door opens. Many cars before WWII had those and now it is a popular conversion .. Suicide doors are considered far more dangerous than normal doors because of the possiblity of opening during movement

Answer 9

The people above are correct in the fact that they were hinged backwards (not lambo doors like one guy said)

but we called em suicide doors round here for 3 reasons

first was of course wind force would pop an improperly closed door open,

second was if your buddy pulled away before you fully closed the door, you got run over.

third, if you got out on traffic side and somebody clipped the door as you got out, even just barely, you'd be mangled.