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NASA invented wheels that never get punctured (www.zmescience.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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NASA invented wheels that never get punctured::Would you use this type of tire?

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[–] sugartits 63 points 10 months ago (33 children)

NASA invented wheels that never get punctured

No they fucking didn't.

Wheels that don't puncture have been around for centuries

We don't use them because they are more shit than normal tyres for the majority of use cases.

Specific use cases, such as those faced by NASA may benefit from having such a feature, but to say they "invented" wheels that don't puncture is an outright lie.

Who the fuck wrote this trash?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (18 children)

The Superelastic Tire offers traction equal or superior to conventional pneumatic tires and eliminates both the possibility of puncture failures and running “under-inflated”, thereby improving automobile fuel efficiency and safety. Also, this tire design does not require an inner frame which both simplifies and lightens the tire/wheel assembly.

Except that NASA's new tires are actually better than normal tires in the normal use cases. Hence the word invented. Did you actually read the article before criticising it?

[–] herrvogel 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Traction is not the only factor. How does this new tire affect steering? How much noise does it make as it rolls on the ground? How much noise does it make as air flows over it at high speed? How durable is it? How does it handle high rotational speeds? How does it handle impact? How does it handle braking? How does it handle different weather and road conditions, different temperatures? How does it treat the road surface? And can it be manufactured at such huge scales? There are plenty of reasons why it might very well be completely unsuitable as car tires.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes? I'm not here claiming it's the perfect car tire, I'm merely disputing parent's comment

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