% Hapless owner found out the hard-way the doors have-to be on before it can legally be driven %
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1087975_electric-car-mystery-doorless-abandoned-nissan-leaf-in-palo-alto Electric-Car Mystery: Doorless, Abandoned Nissan Leaf In Palo Alto By John Voelcker Oct 27, 2013 ht2 Anton Wahlman [images http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/abandoned-nissan-leaf-electric-car-in-palo-alto-california-oct-2013_100444162_l.jpg Abandoned Nissan Leaf electric car in Palo Alto, California, Oct 2013 http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/abandoned-nissan-leaf-electric-car-in-palo-alto-california-oct-2013_100444161_l.jpg http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/abandoned-nissan-leaf-electric-car-in-palo-alto-california-oct-2013_100444163_l.jpg http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/abandoned-nissan-leaf-electric-car-in-palo-alto-california-oct-2013_100444166_l.jpg http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/abandoned-nissan-leaf-electric-car-in-palo-alto-california-oct-2013_100444164_l.jpg Registered to: Thomas Joseph Currier 415 Pratt Lane, Palo Alto, CA ] Most people in the U.S. have probably never seen a Nissan Leaf electric car. But Silicon Valley is different--it's crammed with plug-in electric cars, especially Teslas--and now it's got its own electric-car mystery. As longtime reader Anton Wahlman points out, a blue 2012 Nissan Leaf has now been parked for several months on Palo Alto's main drag, El Camino Real. It's easy to spot: It's missing its driver's door. The car is located just south of Charleston Road, where McLaren and Volvo dealerships and a Tesla Store are located. The car may have been there as long as six months, Wahlman says, certainly more than three months. He wonders whether this car is the same one that was a familiar site in and around Palo Alto. That one had no doors at all. None. Wahlman said it seemed to be occupied by one or more college students--perhaps from nearby Stanford University--whenever he saw it. And, he said, he saw it literally hundreds of times from early 2012 through the start of this year that he saw it on the street. So in the Silicon Valley spirit of crowdsourcing answers to problems, we're throwing this one out to our readers. Does anyone know why the doorless Leaf shown in the photos has been sitting on the street for several months? Is it the same car as the blue Leaf with no doors at all? What happened to the door(s) and why were they removed in the first place? Inquiring minds want to know. [© Green Car Reports] ... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=prat ... http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prat#Alternative_forms ... http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hapless http://www.quora.com/Palo-Alto-CA/Is-it-legal-to-drive-a-Nissan-leaf-without-doors Palo Alto, CA: Is it legal to drive a Nissan leaf without doors? I called the Palo Alto police department before taking the doors off of my new electric golf cart (2012 Nissan leaf). I obtained verbal permission from the sergeant and he said that it was legal as there "is no difference between a jeep and a Nissan leaf." Over the last three weeks, I have been pulled over four times for probable cause, but today the police sergeant that pulled me over strongly advised that I put the doors back on. After doing some research, he concluded: It's legal for motorcycles & off-road vehicles, like jeeps, not to have doors, but normal vehicles need to have them. [Comments / Answers] Jon Mixon, Been working on my own vehicles since high school ... Here's are two lists of offenses from the California DMV web site: [ http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/lov/lovd11.htm ] Vehicle Code Appendix B List of Violations Division 11 Rules of the Road and [ http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/lov/lovd12.htm ] Vehicle Code Appendix B List of Violations Division 12 Equipment of Vehicles It seems very likely that the officers could have easily ticketed you for offenses #'s 24002(a) and 24002(b) and been in safe territory. The Nissan Leaf is not equipped with a roll cage in the same manner that certain models of Jeep are and would become unsafe in the event of an accident,particularly a side impact. Frankly (as an aside) it is very odd that the major concern of driving your Nissan without doors would be the legality of the act. It seems that you are forgetting or ignoring the more obvious issues of: Injury - Without doors , in a car which is lower profiled than many SUVs and trucks not having doors would mean that any side impact would result in the driver or the passenger being struck directly the vehicle which hit you. This would mean severe injury or death for the car's occupants. There's also the fact that without a roll cage in the Nissan Leaf any accident which resulted in the vehicle rolling would throw the occupants from the car, either completely or just partially. Again,severe injury or death would be the result. Insurance - While it may be "legal" to operate your Nissan in such a manner, if you are in an accident and you file an insurance claim, you may find that your insurer fights you tooth and nail to prevent themselves from having to pay your claims for the vehicle or your medical expenses. Let's not even imagine what might happen if you have a passenger or passengers in your car when/if it was hit. Suffice it to say that if you lived, you would almost certainly face wrongful death lawsuits from the passenger's families and you may be sued by their insurers to recoup the costs of paying their life insurance claims. Perhaps you might want to really sit down and really consider this idea again. The downsides are so numerous that they really eclipse any possible "upside" ... Sun Apr 07 2013 ... [© quora.com] {Doorless GEM nEV accidents: } http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Unseat-belted-GEM-fatality-td4665968.html EVLN: Unseat-belted GEM fatality October 27, 2013 REDINGTON BEACH, Fla. - A woman was killed when she fell out of an electric vehicle just before 6 p.m. Saturday. http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Athlete-Alexis-Bolstad-s-gem-nEV-accident-brain-injury-video-tp4665598.html EVLN: Athlete Alexis Bolstad's gem nEV accident> brain injury (video) http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/87758/ Charges filed against owner of GEM car involved in Alexis Bolstad accident ... Oct 06 2013 http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-GEM-nEV-accident-had-passenger-fatality-tp4664809.html EVLN: GEM nEV accident had passenger fatality ... died as a result of the injuries. "GEM car operators should be reminded that GEM cars are held to the same rules and laws as other motor vehicles," said John Calabrese, Director of Public Safety for Petoskey. "Michigan law mandates that GEM car drivers and passengers wear seat belts." ... 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