And just to think, in 30 years after the majority of the fleet has them, door dings become a thing of the past!

Unfortunately, everyone is driving the same Lincoln Mark VIII, so mass-boredom sets in...

Or, you could go with this model:

http://www.roadandtrack.com/tests/car/2011-mercedes-benz-sls-amg

I've thought of one less expensive solution - when bicycle riding along a row of parked cars, keep to the outside of the bike lane so as to minimize the possibility of being hit, and keep your eyes on the cars - perhaps you will see a situation develop. That's the method I use when bike riding.

Seriously, I just don't understand the contempt and anger some bike riders show towards our motor vehicle driving fellow citizens - given the fact that they can kill or maim us with a swerve while texting or disciplining the kids the back seat, or by the mere act of opening a car door to get out from a parallel parking space. Personally, my goal in life is not to have "But he had the right-of-way" inscribed on my tombstone.

So would this one.

A person exiting a car has the right of way in an encounter with a cyclist. The person exiting a car is a pedestrian. Pedestrians always have the right of way. Cyclists should pay more attention to their surroundings when riding along a line of cars.

You are liable to be disbarred, tigardchris, if you keep giving out bad legal advice...

https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/811.490

That statute doesn't say anything about bike lanes, just "sidewalks and shoulders". I'm not a lawyer; is the lack of a reference to bike lanes specifically something a driver who doors a biker in a bike lane could use to weasel out of the charge?

Eric, like you, I am not a lawyer. I assume that, as with most statutes, there is plenty of wiggle room to be found with this one. That being said, I believe that bicycles in the bike lane would be covered under that statute as "traffic." The only obvious wiggle room seems to be that one could argue they weren't in violation of this statute if they had opened their door in front of a vehicle (other than a bike) traveling on a sidewalk or shoulder.

The one time that I came within a second of opening a door into a bike fool was because he didn't have a headlight.

Clean up the bike rider's flagrant law breaking first!

Thanks
JK

Opening your door and causing a bike, jogger, or other vehicle to hit it is your fault just as if you pulled your vehicle out in front of them. Ask any cop.

I haven't been doored in 12 years. Yeah, I'm more careful, but I think so are more drivers, since there are so many more bicyclists on the road.

Dooring somebody in a bike lane is inexcusable. But on a side street, most drivers don't look in the mirror before they open the door. Outside of bike lanes, cyclists need to stay clear of the doors' opening radius wherever possible.

Rear doors are going to be a problem almost anywhere. Fortunately, they don't open that often, and sometimes don't even exist.

'course now the bloomin idiots themselves will get run into, instead of their car doors. Judging by the obesity statistics nowadays, at least it'll be something like an airbag instead of steel and glass. Just sayin....