I feel like I’ve seen the concept work enough times on demonstrations that I’m justified wondering why I still gotta drag my butt to Mavis every few months
Imagine all the conveniences of a pressurized tire, but with terrible balance and constantly filling with dirt and debris. All those nooks and crannies, like an english muffin crossed with an out of balance washing machine.
They’re great for off-road and heavy duty work applications.
Couldn’t you resolve that by just covering the airless part? Like just because we don’t have to inflate them anymore doesn’t mean we need to constantly be seeing how not-inflated it is
Wouldn’t that introduce a pretty big layer that can wear down? Any sort of fully opaque cover would have to be flexible to adapt to the road and I can’t think of a material that isn’t going to wear down from that, and at that point you’re just back to inflated tires with extra steps, so you might as well use regular inflated tires.
Your original intent was to not need to replace tyres. If you still need to replace other parts just as often, you haven’t really improved on the problem.
You’ve taken a tire that was previously filled with very light air and filled it with rubber or plastic lattice.
So not only will the tire ride worse and wear faster due to weight but it will be more expensive to replace more often.
You will always have to inflate your tires every few months, because even if the amount of air inside the tire never changes, the outside air temperature will.
10 degrees Fahrenheit for every 1 PSI in the tire is the rule of thumb.
What are the pros and cons of this against modern single seater motor vehicles like motorcycles? Seems like the giant wheel would be hard to replace and service.
In a country with good infrastructure they basically instantly upgrade the accessibility and travel distance one person has within their area.
Plus they’re just insanely fun to ride on, not having to get off and walk up hills makes it ridiculously easy to pretend you’re in a mariokart game when you’re on a loop of streets by yourself.
As an E-Bike user, I endorse this statement, but I think a vehicle that weighs a literal ton tipping over might be a bit more trouble than a bicycle doing the same.
My view on history because of my age and growing up as a nerdy only child of parents who came of age in the 1960’s has given me a really crazy notion of how amazing the ideas technology driven advancements looks in that time period between 1900 and about 1980. Everyone from scientists, inventors, to authors, and directors seemed to really think we were going to be doing some amazing shit by the year 2000. Maybe not even particularly “better” shit, but amazing shit.
I guess I was just into my imagination and science fiction back then.
It wasnt until this very moment that I realized I’d like to see a new Ace Ventura movie starring Jim Carey updated to match his years of experience of dramatic role expansion.
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