The Future of Tires (or Tyres)

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Bridgestone is showing off their latest, non-pneumatic tire. As you can see, it is a pretty fancy looking thing, which uses advanced polymers to replicate the flexible but tough traditional rubber tire.

Right now, each tire can only support 150kg, which means these are destined for Hover-round duty, not your daily sleigh ride.

Interestingly Bridgestone is saying they are working on ways to stop objects from becoming lodged inside... I am not sure why a simple cover won't work.. but there it is.

Probably a long way down the road before you are rolling on these puppies, but still, interesting to see.

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