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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
In reverse order: wipers can be tucked into a pocket.
It has normal ground clearance at the front, and if the aero is ideal, the rear would have higher than normal clearance.
The brakes would be fine. If it had an electric drivetrain, it would barely use its friction brakes, anyway.
Look at the Tesla door handles.
I think it has a sliding door, and it certainly could have a hatch.
We need to change this law, and allow video side mirrors.
We don't know what the interior dimensions are. My CarBEN EV5 design is largely based on the Bionic (aka Boxfish) and my design has 3 seats with space for people ~6'-4"+ and a seat for someone ~5'-8, and a seat for someone ~5'-0" tall; 5 seats total.
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There are reason, why Mercedes A-Class and Chevy Bolt have more clearance around the front wheel for example. If you offer something like that Bionic Concept for the masses, there will be a lot of broken side skirts and angry customers.
Even if you barely need to use the brakes usually, you still need capable brakes. Brakes must be able to perform well in the most demanding emergency braking even when the full battery is not able to receive any electricity. Electric cars are heavy and they need big brakes. I've seen those hidden door handles also in Aston Martins, but modern compact family cars don’t use them. A production car can't wait and hope the law to change.
I find CarBEN interesting project. How long and tall is the car? I am just trying to figure out, that how you can fit almost four seat rows in a car while many manufacturers have a hard time to offer comfortable legroom for two rows of seats. Your chassis has open roof and rear end. How do you make the chassis stiff enough?
IMO this picture shows clearly, that the Bionic Concept has very limited space for rear seats. That guy on the drivers seat would fit there only after decapitation.
http://images.hgmsites.net/lrg/merce...00009713_l.jpg