Drivers Seating

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Ive seen suggestions regarding bench seats, but I'm hoping that Scout also sets the mark for drivers side "Hip Room" (as per SAE J1100) in a captain's chair configuration. Any thing definite about the interior dimensions for Traveler? Sure hope we can at least as well as a full size truck. Leg splay is my concern, and a deal breaker.

According to Grok....

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Ive seen suggestions regarding bench seats, but I'm hoping that Scout also sets the mark for drivers side "Hip Room" (as per SAE J1100) in a captain's chair configuration. Any thing definite about the interior dimensions for Traveler? Sure hope we can at least as well as a full size truck. Leg splay is my concern, and a deal breaker.

According to Grok....

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Welcome to the community! We don’t have any specifics as to interior dimensions just yet.

I have been fortunate enough to sit in the seats, front buckets and back of the Traveler. I was very happy with the front seat, with the caveat that they are still a concept.

If you use the search function and search my name CYURE in the title you will find the 4 threads from when we have seen the concepts in person.

Our trip to South Carolina is where I had the most seat time.

Welcome again!

Here’s a link to our SC thread.


 
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Ive seen suggestions regarding bench seats, but I'm hoping that Scout also sets the mark for drivers side "Hip Room" (as per SAE J1100) in a captain's chair configuration. Any thing definite about the interior dimensions for Traveler? Sure hope we can at least as well as a full size truck. Leg splay is my concern, and a deal breaker.

According to Grok....

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Ive seen suggestions regarding bench seats, but I'm hoping that Scout also sets the mark for drivers side "Hip Room" (as per SAE J1100) in a captain's chair configuration. Any thing definite about the interior dimensions for Traveler? Sure hope we can at least as well as a full size truck. Leg splay is my concern, and a deal breaker.

According to Grok....

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Welcome to the community. Having sat in the front with the console and being 5’-10/11” the leg width was great. It’s a wide interior so lots of splay space
 
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I don’t know, my man. I don’t know how this is going to play out.

For whatever it’s worth, I spent about 15 years getting gaslit pretty hard about my weight gain as being something brought about as a result of me being a lazy slob who ate too much and exercised too little, not as a result of me taking extremely high dosages of metylprednisolone without being told to be mindful of how much sugar I took in on those days because it was going to make my insulin go effing bananas. I won’t go into all of it because it’s long and personal and frankly I only carried that weight for a short part of my life, not all of it.

If you’ve never carried extra weight, I think it’s hard to really appreciate the kind of bullshit that a person goes through in their every day life. It seems like it’s full of disappointment. There are people around who you’re supposed to go to for help and then these people are so disgusted by the sight of you that they cannot and will not be troubled to accommodate you.

It would be kind of cool if extra-large chairs were a made-to-order option. Make it an extra charge if you have to, but Jesus H. Christ, I wish someone would just please show some basic-ass humanity and address that people are in fact in need of big chairs.

Seriously, I’m asking what large folks are supposed to do in their present in order to ever go somewhere? Cut off a leg? Snip off flesh so they fit in spaces that aren’t made to accommodate them? What they hell do they do? Having seen a very large young woman with cancer struggle to fit into a car at young adult cancer camp a few years ago, it just sucked to not have a way to ease a fellow human being’s pain.
 
I don’t know, my man. I don’t know how this is going to play out.

For whatever it’s worth, I spent about 15 years getting gaslit pretty hard about my weight gain as being something brought about as a result of me being a lazy slob who ate too much and exercised too little, not as a result of me taking extremely high dosages of metylprednisolone without being told to be mindful of how much sugar I took in on those days because it was going to make my insulin go effing bananas. I won’t go into all of it because it’s long and personal and frankly I only carried that weight for a short part of my life, not all of it.

If you’ve never carried extra weight, I think it’s hard to really appreciate the kind of bullshit that a person goes through in their every day life. It seems like it’s full of disappointment. There are people around who you’re supposed to go to for help and then these people are so disgusted by the sight of you that they cannot and will not be troubled to accommodate you.

It would be kind of cool if extra-large chairs were a made-to-order option. Make it an extra charge if you have to, but Jesus H. Christ, I wish someone would just please show some basic-ass humanity and address that people are in fact in need of big chairs.

Seriously, I’m asking what large folks are supposed to do in their present in order to ever go somewhere? Cut off a leg? Snip off flesh so they fit in spaces that aren’t made to accommodate them? What the hell do they do? Having seen a very large young woman with cancer struggle to fit into a car at young adult cancer camp a few years ago, it just sucked to not have a way to ease a fellow human being’s pain.
It seems like acknowledging that people come in every shape and size is a failure in the automotive industry. High-end electric seats are adjustable in every way except the leg and side bolsters in my experience. Personally, I prefer a tighter fitting seat to combat fatigue and slouching on rough roads/trails and long road trips. My old f250 was built for big bodies, but my newer f150 is a little better and the in-laws’ jk wrangler is just about right. All that aside, it doesn’t seem like a feat of engineering to make a seat with adjustable bolsters for all shapes and sizes.
 
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It seems like acknowledging that people come in every shape and size is a failure in the automotive industry. High-end electric seats are adjustable in every way except the leg and side bolsters in my experience. Personally, I prefer a tighter fitting seat to combat fatigue and slouching on rough roads/trails and long road trips. My old f250 was built for big bodies, but my newer f150 is a little better and the in-laws’ jk wrangler is just about right. All that aside, it doesn’t seem like a feat of engineering to make a seat with adjustable bolsters for all shapes and sizes.
I’d go as far as to say it’s been a failure in just about every industry, but I’m glad that Scout is offering bench seats. That is pretty awesome. I don’t think it’s going to be a perfect solution because that’s not a seat that you can slide forward/back (I assume?) to adjust like you could with a captain’s chair (I also assume?) to make adjustments as needed. Still, it’s a start. People don’t deserve to feel crappy for occupying space. There’s so much you can do with existing designs and space and I get that there are physical limitations that you straight-up can’t exceed, but if something can be done, that is cool. Maybe there’s an aftermarket answer to this.
 
I have clearly misinterpreted the intent of the post and was wondering if the bench seat would be best for the given application (while parked) at a dark overlook (not realizing that the use-case involved actual driving of the vehicle), so my definition & interpretation of the splaying of the leg was obviously in the gutter. I may need to buffer up on my lingo.
 
I have clearly misinterpreted the intent of the post and was wondering if the bench seat would be best for the given application (while parked) at a dark overlook (not realizing that the use-case involved actual driving of the vehicle), so my definition & interpretation of the splaying of the leg was obviously in the gutter. I may need to buffer up on my lingo.
I WAS HATCHED FROM AN EGG OKAY
 
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I have clearly misinterpreted the intent of the post and was wondering if the bench seat would be best for the given application (while parked) at a dark overlook (not realizing that the use-case involved actual driving of the vehicle), so my definition & interpretation of the splaying of the leg was obviously in the gutter. I may need to buffer up on my lingo.
Until you had made the previous comment I didn’t even think of it that way but I busted out laughing when I read that-keep posting the lingo. We say way more offensive things on here some days
 
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