{"id":21152,"date":"2018-08-12T18:47:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nasimword.ir\/?p=21152"},"modified":"2018-08-12T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T14:17:35","slug":"heres-why-you-should-always-open-your-car-door-with-your-right-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/?p=21152&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why You Should Always Open Your Car Door with Your Right Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you live in a city, every commute could be a \u201cbest-of\u201d reel of dangerous driving. Car doors, in particular, have become an excellent teaching aid in proving Newton\u2019s law that no two objects can occupy the same space simultaneously. Bikers, often sandwiched in a bike lane between parked cars and flowing traffic, are so prone to being struck by errant car doors that the phenomenon now has a name:\u00a0dooring<\/em>. Sadly, it\u2019s more common than you\u2019d think. As for scary driving scenarios, follow these\u00a0driving tips to maintain control and stay safe.<\/p>\n

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A 2011 report found that there was roughly one dooring accident in Chicago every day of the year, accounting for about\u00a0one in five of all reported bike crashes. New York City recently announced a plan to raise dooring awareness among taxi passengers by including a new\u00a0video advertisement\u00a0and ‘LOOK! For Cyclists’ sticker in all 13,000 city cabs (Chicago declined to pass a similar measure several years ago). This is a nice start for a city that serves about 336,000 cab passengers every day. Still, a sticker does not a behavioral overhaul make, and there are more than\u00a0250,000 daily Uber and Lyft passengers\u00a0in the city who will miss this message altogether. What, then, is the next step to ensure peace between bikers and drivers?<\/p>\n

The excellent urban design blog\u00a099% Invisible\u00a0reports a simple, almost effortless motion you can take as a driver or passenger of a motor vehicle concerned about cyclist safety: Just open your door with your right hand.\u00a0Plus, here\u2019s another little-known fact about\u00a0why your tires are the most important safety feature on a car.<\/p>\n

This tip comes to us from the Netherlands, which is why it\u2019s known here as the ‘Dutch Reach.’ If you are sitting on the driver\u2019s side of a parked car and want to get out, don\u2019t open the door with your door-side (left) hand as you\u2019re intuitively prepared to \u2014 instead, open the door with your right hand. This simple motion causes you to pivot your entire upper body as you reach, first drawing your line of sight past by your rear-view mirror, and then out to the street behind you. (If you are on the passenger\u2019s side, use your left hand instead of your right; the trick is just to use the hand\u00a0furthest<\/em>\u00a0from the door to ensure an upper-body pivot.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just that simple\u2014and it works. So effective is the Dutch Reach that it doesn\u2019t even have a name in the bike-friendly Netherlands. For decades, that\u2019s just how drivers have been taught to open a door. Here are\u00a011 more driving etiquette rules\u00a0you should know on the road.<\/p>\n

Like any habit, the Dutch Reach will take a while to internalize.\u00a0DutchReach.org, a safety advocacy movement trying to make the reach mainstream, has plenty of resources for spreading the word, and a few slogans that could help you remember. Our favorite: ‘Reach, Swivel, Look, Open.’<\/p>\n

Of course, if it\u2019s easier to remember, you could always just tell yourself to ‘Go Dutch.’ Next, learn\u00a0how car colors affect your chances of getting into an accident.<\/p>\n

The post\u00a0<\/em>Here\u2019s Why You Should Always Open Your Car Door with Your Right Hand<\/em>appeared first on\u00a0<\/em>Reader’s Digest<\/em>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you live in a city, every commute could be a \u201cbest-of\u201d reel of dangerous driving. Car doors, in particular, have become an excellent teaching aid in proving Newton\u2019s law that no two objects can occupy the same space simultaneously. 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