Posted on 01/14/2005 7:01:21 PM PST by aculeus
Is Al Gore's name on the patent?
Well it sure looks ugly, but I am sure it will perform better. They need to do tests up here in Alaska before they go to market with it though.
They've been available for years for wheelchairs.
Amazing photo. I don't really understand how it can absorb an impact like that and not be bent out of shape, but obviously it works.
Those would be awesome for off road driving...get a stick stuck in one of those and it would beat the crap out of your truck
Interesting. Okay, so let me ask one question: if those things become common place, what are police going to use to handicap a runaway vehicle in those much-televised car chases around Los Angeles? Since these tires don't go flat, spike strips won't be worth a darn.
Good idea... once you get past the dorky name.
I've had other thoughts, too. From time to time.
LVM
Michael Shumacher will campaign these next year!
It does look like some well placed bubble gum, will throw it out of balance.
How'd ja know?
What everyone's missing is this:
"the costly air-pressure monitors that will soon be required on new vehicles in the US."
Get the U.S. federal government out of the marketplace now! Where the hell does it say in the Constitution that the government gets to determine every car has a tire pressure sensor!?!?!?!
I believe that solid rubber tires (non-inflatible, for those of you who live in Rio Linda) were used back in the early 1900's on some trucks in the logging industry in Oregon and Washington where the terrain was not too kind to the tubed air tire. This is not a new invention per se.....maybe just a new design on an old product. However, the solid rubber tire back then was not suitable on the street where a smooth ride was desired. Hope I'm not giving my age away.....any other old geezers out there who remember this???
I think that's in Groucho's copy.
Looks like a reprise of:
Reinventing the Wheel (and the Tire, Too)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315785/posts
from just over a week ago.
Lots of technical critique on that thread.
Why not just make a "tar", the combination of a tire and a car. That way when it breaks you just buy a new "tar".
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