If you have ever driven a VW beetle, you can enter the freeway with confidence. Through the door, which is on the starboard side. One afternoon I was stopped at a light in Palo Alto with a school bus full of kids immediately to my left. The windows along the bus clacked down and the kids started asking me questions like if I could fit the car in my pocket and if I could drive through doors at the store. I yelled back that I wondered how I was going to get out.
Air conditioning is a heavy, power-hungry feature.
In Northern California, it is almost never hot enough that you need air conditioning for comfort. Both Sparrow windows open wide. The Sparrow has a heater, including a front defogger. It doesn't take a very powerful heater to warm up the small cabin. No, I bought it.