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Tires are basically balloons, so everyone is driving around in clown cars on balloons all day. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] medicsofanarchy 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I had this thought a while back, too. So I looked into it, and tire design is actually fascinating!

Think about it - a many-thousand-pound device travelling 60-100mph and gripping the road only through the bits of tire that contact the road. Each tire, under load, only touches the pavement in a space about the size of a deck of cards.

And these four small contact points have to swing this one+ ton of machine around corners, at speed, without losing contact.

There's a lot of good engineering in tires.

[–] stupidcasey 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you think that’s impressive you should look into the tires they use on the moon think what would balloons do in a vacuum? BOOM, so they have to be made out of a synthetic material that is maluable but will reform its structure after being deformed they are actual magic.