Tail gun seating is this, at least what I found :
Seats with back to back (back od front driver oposite to the back of passager behind, have a problem I just figured now. It need to be 90 degree, fixed, otherwise the other person will have reverse (supplementary angle) angle.
Diamond pattern ???
Another problem from Aptera, in regard the large wheels (too thick) is the fact there was a large space from the wheels streamlined cover to the ground, since usual city streets have gaps that would broke it.
I imagine a wheels streamlined covers that would have a adjust of heigth, like one portion of the cover would enter in itself, to make the wheels more noticeable and have less danger of a gap on street broke the covers. For roads in fine shape it could be closer to the ground.
I also imagined a approach to allow more angle/lateral moviment for front wheels without need a very width value to the wheel covers, but it's difficult to imagine a way to use this idea together with the idea adjustable heigth.
Anyway, to allow more angled moviment/angle of front wheel, like for parking between two cars, I imagined two small ports in each side, that ould open as the wheel pull it when we turn the steering wheel a lot. In normal drive it would not be used a lot, since the wheel angle would not change enough.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
Rear seat passengers feet normally go under the front passenger's H-point anyway. That close coupled tandem seating doesn't gain much. Tail-gunner seating will never be popular with anyone over 6 years old. A diamond pattern instead of side-by side conserves width.
Increasing width with length doesn't improve the fineness ratio.
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