Traffic Problems: A Collection Of Comic Road Accidents

10. Doors aren't the most important part of a car, right?

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Your eyes dart to an automobile that seems to be defying the fundamental notion of what makes a car as you negotiate a crowded junction. An automobile that seems to have shed its doors totally is rolling down the street with shockingly nonchalance. One would not find the protective barriers of driver and passenger doors anywhere one would expect them to be found. Open air only exists. Seemingly unconcerned by their exposed condition, the inhabitants sail about as if this were the most natural way life works. The car's frame is exposed, exposing slights of the inside and the laid-back attitudes of individuals within. It passes and you find that, although the disappearance of doors is startling, other vital parts including the roof, windshield, and wheels are luckily still intact. This unusual method of automotive design begs many issues. Is this a purposeful change for some esoteric use? An ill-directed effort at weight loss for improved fuel economy? Alternatively the outcome of a sequence of bad circumstances the owner chose to welcome? Whatever the cause, this doorless wonder reminds us vividly that although doors might not be the most crucial component of a car in terms of its essential purpose of transportation, they surely much add to safety, comfort, and the whole concept of what a car should be. You can't help but consider the daring – or maybe the stupidity – of redesigning automobile architecture in such a drastic manner as the car vanishes around a turn leaves a wake of confused bystanders.