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Goodyear reveals spherical tyres for self-driving cars

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American manufacturer Goodyear has unveiled a concept for a "visionary" sphere-shaped tyre that could make driverless cars safer and smoother to run (+ movie). (more…)

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everphilski
2973 days ago
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Simple physics. Weight of car [lb] has to be compensated for by pressure of tires * contact patch [lb/area] *[area] = [lb].
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denismm
2973 days ago
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Of all the things the Wachowskis might have predicted correctly, we get the spherical wheels from Speed Racer?
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2973 days ago
Heh.
fxer
2973 days ago
thought they were from iRobot or maybe Minority Report
blakeyrat
2972 days ago
I, Robot did it first.