{"id":9190,"date":"2021-12-06T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2021-12-06T19:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:48:02","slug":"bring-back-the-ergonomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/bring-back-the-ergonomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back the Ergonomics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve often bitched here that cars are not well-designed for getting in and out of. Well, back in the 1950&#8217;s some unnamed Chrysler designers apparently felt the same way, and designed front seats that swiveled to ease ingress and egress.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;GM took note, and pushed it even further; the designers of one of their 1961 concept cars, the Buick Flamingo, said &#8220;Hell, let&#8217;s make it turn <em>all<\/em> the way around.&#8221; But neither the car nor the seat ever made it into production.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ergonomics took a backseat to providing affordable, luxury cars. By designing swivel seats, people could move with ease. But this was expensive and often a safety hazard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBring Back the Ergonomics: Cars Used to Have Swiveling Front Seats to Make Them Easier to Get in and out Of.\u201d <em>Core77<\/em>, https:\/\/www.core77.com\/posts\/54841\/Bring-Back-the-Ergonomics-Cars-Used-to-Have-Swiveling-Front-Seats-to-Make-Them-Easier-to-Get-In-and-Out-of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve often bitched here that cars are not well-designed for getting in and out of. Well, back in the 1950&#8217;s some unnamed Chrysler designers apparently felt the same way, and designed front seats that swiveled to ease ingress and egress.&#8221; &#8220;GM took note, and pushed it even further; the designers of one of their 1961 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":9191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-focus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}