Vehicles and their Doors!!

It frustrates me that car manufacturers really lack in serious motivation in upgrading or inventing a new door for the vehicles that we drive. Now here in the Christmas season we pack ourselves into parking lots that aren't designed for keeping our cars "ding free." Most of us hate it when we come out of a store and head back to your vehicle only to see a good sized "ding" in your side panel which most likely came from the vehicle next to you. They were probably not realizing how close they were to your vehicle before they "popped" open their door right into yours. Now your stuck with either trying to repair it yourself or just letting it go because you don't want to spend a couple hundred dollars trying to make the paint match again on that color that only the dealership has the ingredients for, which is another Rant of its own. Troubles with today's vehicle doors. I had a Cougar car when I was younger and couldn't understand why my doors had to be so incredibly long. Parking spaces were small and parking next to a vehicle almost guaranteed that I would have to at least touch the vehicle next to me just to get 6 inches of space at the back where I would have to contort myself to get through. We've all had times where the driver would have to get in and then pull the vehicle out just to get the rest of the group into the vehicles because the doors simply wouldn't open far enough for people to get in. The Inovation has been here for years. We see vans and mini-vans that have their sliding rear doors that would hardly ever be able to hit the car next to you. The answer seems simple enough: put a sliding door on the front doors as well. Put that sliding rail at the half way point vertically on the door and have it slide down the side of the hood of the car. Is it that difficult? I wouldn't think so. Wouldn't it be nice to be parked next to a vehicle and when that door slides completely out of the way, you would be able to easily exit the vehicle without having to worry about hitting another vehicle with your door. Reasons "They" will not upgrade doors. You get that first "ding" and then the next, and next, and so on. Those first few hit you like a ton of bricks while fadding in impact after that. Next thing you know, your car just doesn't have that luster it once had. The biggest reason, besides needing to wash it this month, are all those dents, scratches, and other "dings" that have just accumulated over the years. Result: you want a new car. Who does that make happy? The Car Manufacturers. Who would introduce the new doors to keep those dings away, keeping you in away from the dealerships longer? The Car Manufacturers. Any questions? The Greater Good. From a business perspective I can completely understand why the Car Manufacturers don't put better doors on vehicles. However, looking from a nation and world that is trying to keep our resources as long as we can I have to question the big businesses motivation of money and start thinking about our resources. The Greater Good would be to upgrade those doors and if your company was first to do it, you'd be the first praised for a "greener" car.