As a symbolic product of the development of modern industrial civilization, the automobile not only adds to our daily lives, but also becomes a talk of many “car gods” after tea. When we talk about cars, the engines, transmissions, and chassis, which we often call "three big things," are basically the core of the topic. For example, how high is the Honda's engine technology and how the gearbox of Aisin is being shifted? Smoothness and the PSA's chassis adjustments are so deep, and so on, but there are very few tires for the vehicle's only component that touches the ground. In most people's traditional ideas, the technological content of tires can only be developed around safety, wear resistance and quietness.

The fact is that in the 21st century when materials science and technology are rapidly developing, a revolution in automobile tires is happening quietly.

IntelliGrip concept tire

Developed by Goodyear, this tire has an asymmetric tread pattern that can handle most of the weather conditions encountered during daily driving and keeps the vehicle firmly on the ground. It may be said that the design of asymmetrical tread pattern has already been mass-produced. There is nothing surprising about it. Then the following one is very powerful. In addition to asymmetrical lines, this tire also has very precise sensing technology and is interconnected with a trip computer to keep drivers informed of the latest fetus. Not only that, once the vehicle enters a wet road, the sensing device can immediately trigger the vehicle's warning mechanism to help the vehicle take active braking and other safety measures. Taking the initiative to participate in driving safety rather than remedying after accidents is the original intention of this tire.

Tire depth automatic reading tire

This technique is similar to tire pressure monitoring. The German horse brand embeds the sensor in the tire wear critical point when making the tire, and the sensor can also quantify the thickness of the tread and display it on the instrument panel. The driver can know at any time where the tire of the vehicle wears out. Once the tire wears to the limit, the sensor can immediately trigger an alarm, and the driver can also know the first time, thereby avoiding accidents such as puncture.

Selfseal tire

The tires are nailed and believed to be the problems encountered by the majority of driver friends. Generally, we will repair the tires by ourselves, dismantling, repairing, transposing, and balancing, not to mention how much money is spent. Friends no doubt added extra time costs. Michelin's Selfseal tires can be permanently repaired when they are drilled with nails less than 6 mm in diameter. The owner simply pulls out the nails and the rest will not have to worry about it. Moreover, the repaired tires can also work normally, and the cost of changing the tires is also saved.

Retractable studded winter tire

Contrary to the above tires, the Nordic brand is always plucking nails into its own products. This tire is buried with many cleats, and can control the expansion and contraction of the nail head through the keys of the center console. When the road conditions are good, they are used as ordinary tires. Once they meet snow-covered roads, these nails are used. This technology is also very much in line with Finland’s national conditions. After all, Nordic winters are as long and cold as the northeast.

BHO3 concept tire

This tire was actually introduced by Goodyear as early as the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. The special thing about this tire is that it is the world's first tire that can generate electricity autonomously! Yes, from! the Lord! hair! Electricity! You read it right. It is well known that when a vehicle is driving at high speeds, the tires and the ground are violently rubbed to generate a lot of heat, which is wasted as much as the energy loss of the engine. Although the tire generates less calories than the engine, the fly is also small, and the BHO3 concept tire can collect and convert this heat into electricity! However, to tell the truth, the current technology is still more than the actual meaning of the company's showy technology, because I said earlier that the tires provide too little energy, not enough to support the electric vehicle's endurance.

Honeycomb tire

The tires were launched at the Polymer Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and are primarily military. Viewed from the side, the tire consists of a solid tread and a honeycomb-like support structure. The advantages of this type of tire are obvious. Honeycomb-shaped support structure can provide higher strength while ensuring the damping effect. The solid tread eliminates the worries of flat tires and can reduce the exposure of the soldiers on the battlefield where the shrapnel traverses. Probability outside the car.

Similar to this type of tire is Bridgestone's Air Free Concept non-pneumatic tire, which uses a simpler spoke on the support structure. It is understood that this tire can withstand a maximum load of 410KG and a speed of 60km/h.

Boostrac tires

As you can see from the appearance, this tire is somewhat similar to our common off-road tires, but it is more extreme in its shape. Boostrac tires are lined with 120 hexagonal special rubber blocks on the floor to allow vehicles to run on non-paved roads such as sand, gravel and mud. Moreover, this tyre can be used to complete the transition from off-road to paved road with different arrangement of rubber blocks.

Visionary Concept tires

This tire is Michelin's recently introduced 3D printed tire. It is made from a variety of biodegradable recycled materials and completely pollutes the environment after disposal. Moreover, not only does it fail to puncture the tire, its service life is basically the same as the service life of the vehicle, that is to say, as long as no accident (man-made damage, car accident, etc.), this tire can be life-long maintenance-free.

Eagle-360 spherical concept tire

Husband: "My wife, the tires changed last month, it seems that you can't do anything. Every time you cross a corner, you'll be thrown off by Wuling Hongguang. Can you apply for a set of new tires?" Wife: "Buy a ball! "Eagle-360:" Why did you call me? "I put this thing in front of you. Can you think of this as a tire?" People are not only tires, but also tires with high technological content. Its tread adopts a bionic design to imitate the shape of brain coral, and it can flex freely like a sponge, thereby changing the hardness and hardness of the tire and adapting to various road conditions. In addition, this tire also has a mobile internet function, which can feed back the road surface and weather conditions to the vehicle control system through an embedded sensor, and share it with other surrounding vehicles to improve driving safety. Its spherical shape allows the vehicle to perform in-place steering as well as lateral movement and other operations.