Right, let's try that again...
My main problem is dropping down, when I do so I cannot see the ground
Is that because the bonet (hood) blocks your view?
Right, the idea I had was this...
Firstly, the starting point came from wondering if you could somehow remove the need to do an "arm arm leg leg" type manuvoure, and instead, use a kind of "rolling" manouver which would (hopefully) look more "visually" smoother.
With that in mind, I wondered if you could:
1) Attached some kind of wide roller on a movable arm, just below your knees. In robot mode, it would hang out of sight, within the leg frame.
As you start to lower into car mode, it starts to drop.
2) Coupled with this, you have a roller near your toes. As you start to lower (once your arms are supported), you "tip" your toes.
This results in you going onto the roller and therefore your feet "slip" out from under you. As this happens, rather than crashing into a heap, the weight of your legs are supported by the roller arm (1) above which continues to move (fold out)
away from your leg and in the direction of your chest. (I hope that makes sense? Ultimately, the your feet are slipping away from you, and the knee roller is folding the opposite way towards your chest.)
To help take your weight, and to give you more control over your decent, I guess it would need some kind of strong spring to add some resistance once it's past the 90 degrees to the ground point).
However, as it would need to be a strong spring, I'm guessing there's a risk it could smask into your shin if you needed to get up in a hurry, etc, so it probably needs some kind of control wire to stop that happening, but hopefully it's a starting point of an idea.
3) Once your legs are down (both should be possible to go down at the same time), you could use a similar technique for your upper half.
The other advantage of using the springs is that hopefully as they're under tension they'll want to come back to the 90 degree to the floor position, which may help you with pulling yourself back up in one move rather than several.
That's the theory anyway! I'm not engineeringly minded, but it may hopefully be an idea that you can do something with. If not, nothing lost
