Gadgetory

this is from Bridgestone it's their latest concept of an air free tire my tire like a wheel assembly first of all notice the large diameter hub so they can create these veins of thermoplastic at the length or height that they want them to be they've got some give in them as you can see they're they're pretty stiff felt on the other side is another set of these vanes bent the other way and this they say is key and different from a lot of other designs because the tires got two ways of supporting the vehicles weight as it goes over terrain of course you can't get a flat of course you can't get a blowout but again like we said that doesn't happen that often so the other benefits here would be what extremely stiff in cornering I mean this doesn't have any give going that direction as you can imagine very little you don't have a sidewall squash as you're working through corners it might even be unnerving how stiff it is and then notice this the tread is actually the part you replace the wheel unless you damage it doesn't get replaced all you do is basically recap it with another piece of trip making it very environmentally friendly you're just replacing this strip of thin tread rubber Michelin's tuile also uses a thin outer tread layer then an array of long spokes to give the compliance needed to create a good contact patch then a more dense matrix of spokes closer to the hub and that creates an energy absorbing device between the car and the road bright X as its energy return wheel is designed to take the impacts of the road and instead of transferring all of that to the suspension to deal with turns it into a bit of torque to aid the cars forward progress or the opposite flow during braking and resilient technologies is focused on airless tires for military applications or a flat from strand soldiers in a bad place their design uses a honeycomb of polymer veins and they say 30% of those can be blown or shot out the tire will still function adequately and find the airless tired thing fascinating because of the low maintenance extreme durability and it's got a nice kind of environmental footprint we throw away a lot of tires that we have to find something to do with and this would erase most of that