Ok I think this actually has way too much speculation and is asking the wrong question. Instead of “in your opinion globally are there more x or y”, why not quantify it? Specifically in your instance, does your living quarters and personal belongings and other places you frequent have more doors or wheels? Go count them. We can actually solve this with enough data.
For me it’s doors by a long shot. Almost nothing in my life has wheels. I live frugally and cheap furniture usually doesn’t have wheels. I don’t own Lego as other comments suggest. Drawers are not doors. Gears are not wheels. Eyes (wtf) and widows are not doors. The breakdown in my life is:
My office chair has 5, I counted those. I have a bicycle with 2, also counted. No lawnmower, I don’t have a lawn. I use bark and drought resistant native plants to preserve water. My fridge has 2, the ironing board nobody uses and should really be chucked has 2, my car has 4. That’s everything
I don’t understand this logic, the wheels are a part of that. By this logic we shouldn’t be counting the doors of a car either because we don’t call a car a door.
In my life it’s wheels by a long shot. 36 doors. 120 wheels. And that’s counting anything remotely like a door - stuff that’s sus. But all the wheels are 1000% clearly wheels. There are wheels everywhere.
Edit: and I’m NOT counting the little wheels in all my drawers, or any of the many wheels I encounter and use like shopping carts. It’s SO totally wheels. :)
a door handle has a latch assembly which is arguably a wheel, as is the turning cylinder, if it has a lock it could have a bunch more “wheels” too, and the "rose’ (the round part that covers the hole the cylinder passes through to connect the two handles) could also be a “wheel” depending on your definition.
Not every cylinder is a wheel. Not every handle is connected to a door, and not every door has a handle. Sliding doors are doors, but not drawers. Cabinet doors are doors but not windows. A hinge is not a wheel. Plumbing isn’t a wheel. Your capillaries and glands are not wheels.
For the purposes of this question, I think the best definition is simply: a wheel is called a wheel, and a door is called a door. The definition is in the name. That basically eliminates most nonsense haha
I’ll push back on the gears are not wheels statement. They serve the exact same function as wheels (as in they spin to allow something else to move or spin relative to them), just with teeth to add friction and make the ratios less dependent in the specific diameters and/or flaws in curvature (give them a large thing to grab onto to prevent small variations from having an impact).
Though I’ll grant that hinges aren’t wheels (while they do have an axle and involve spinning, the hinged object itself is more like the wheel than the hinge.
Also drawers, if they have tracks, have 2 or 4 wheels each.
There are hinges that use wheels, though, but I would agree that a standard door hinge is not a wheel.
But is a motor a wheel? Maybe not a servo motor since it can’t completely rotate but a stepper or most other motors can freely rotate as much as they wish.
Pulleys are considered wheels - your vehicle is loaded with those.
Ball bearings… Just counting those alone would put wheels above doors in my house.
My own definition for this question is, a wheel is called a wheel. You don’t call gears wheels, they’re a mechanism. If we get too clever with definitions, I have 700 small wheels in my medicine cabinet that facilitate my daily movement
Ok I think this actually has way too much speculation and is asking the wrong question. Instead of “in your opinion globally are there more x or y”, why not quantify it? Specifically in your instance, does your living quarters and personal belongings and other places you frequent have more doors or wheels? Go count them. We can actually solve this with enough data.
For me it’s doors by a long shot. Almost nothing in my life has wheels. I live frugally and cheap furniture usually doesn’t have wheels. I don’t own Lego as other comments suggest. Drawers are not doors. Gears are not wheels. Eyes (wtf) and widows are not doors. The breakdown in my life is:
42 doors 15 wheels
Does your office chair have wheels? Lawnmower? Skates or bicycles? I bet you have more wheels than you think. They’re insidious.
My office chair has 5, I counted those. I have a bicycle with 2, also counted. No lawnmower, I don’t have a lawn. I use bark and drought resistant native plants to preserve water. My fridge has 2, the ironing board nobody uses and should really be chucked has 2, my car has 4. That’s everything
Many drawer slides inside a little wheel on each side. Do roller blinds count as one long wheel?
Drawers have runners and slides, not wheels. See my other comment on wheels
Some drawers do have wheels
I definitely have drawers with little wheels in them.
Yeah but they’re not called wheels. If you go to purchase a replacement, they’re called what I said before.
I don’t understand this logic, the wheels are a part of that. By this logic we shouldn’t be counting the doors of a car either because we don’t call a car a door.
But you just did, they’re called car doors
In my life it’s wheels by a long shot. 36 doors. 120 wheels. And that’s counting anything remotely like a door - stuff that’s sus. But all the wheels are 1000% clearly wheels. There are wheels everywhere.
Edit: and I’m NOT counting the little wheels in all my drawers, or any of the many wheels I encounter and use like shopping carts. It’s SO totally wheels. :)
Wow that’s crazy. What sort of wheels do you have?
Damn, that’s a wheel collection you’ve got going there
Doing this now, will report back.
Edit:
95 doors, 105 wheels. I didn’t count any wheels I couldn’t see (inside dryer, etc)Uh oh, forgot the doors on the cars:
Even: 105 doors, 105 wheels.
Wow, exactly even! That’s a cool looking counting app, what did you use to count the doors and wheels?
Simple Counter from fdroid
a door handle has a latch assembly which is arguably a wheel, as is the turning cylinder, if it has a lock it could have a bunch more “wheels” too, and the "rose’ (the round part that covers the hole the cylinder passes through to connect the two handles) could also be a “wheel” depending on your definition.
One could count a hinge as a wheel as well.
Not every cylinder is a wheel. Not every handle is connected to a door, and not every door has a handle. Sliding doors are doors, but not drawers. Cabinet doors are doors but not windows. A hinge is not a wheel. Plumbing isn’t a wheel. Your capillaries and glands are not wheels.
Your definition is wheely bad
how are you defining wheel?
For the purposes of this question, I think the best definition is simply: a wheel is called a wheel, and a door is called a door. The definition is in the name. That basically eliminates most nonsense haha
I think I got 45 doors and 42 wheels which does not include cars
I’ll push back on the gears are not wheels statement. They serve the exact same function as wheels (as in they spin to allow something else to move or spin relative to them), just with teeth to add friction and make the ratios less dependent in the specific diameters and/or flaws in curvature (give them a large thing to grab onto to prevent small variations from having an impact).
Though I’ll grant that hinges aren’t wheels (while they do have an axle and involve spinning, the hinged object itself is more like the wheel than the hinge.
Also drawers, if they have tracks, have 2 or 4 wheels each.
There are hinges that use wheels, though, but I would agree that a standard door hinge is not a wheel.
But is a motor a wheel? Maybe not a servo motor since it can’t completely rotate but a stepper or most other motors can freely rotate as much as they wish.
Pulleys are considered wheels - your vehicle is loaded with those.
Ball bearings… Just counting those alone would put wheels above doors in my house.
My own definition for this question is, a wheel is called a wheel. You don’t call gears wheels, they’re a mechanism. If we get too clever with definitions, I have 700 small wheels in my medicine cabinet that facilitate my daily movement
26 doors and 7 wheels for me