Bridgestone and Michelin test advances in puncture-free tyres

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Brigestone, who supplies the car parts, is examining progress in tires that ever fifty, smooth for more self-driving vehicles.

The Japanese company, which is the largest tire supplier in the world with Michelin in France, has created an air-free version that says it can support 1-ton vehicles in an hour in an hour compared to the capacity of the hard tire a decade ago.

The new computer-enabled structures and materials have directed significant innovations to improve their effectiveness at higher speed and weight, as their pneumatic tire has been created as a competitor for replacement just as a premium on the protection of driverless vehicles and has no stops.

However, the huge performance and cost benefits of pneumatic tires make them very tight.

New tires are being trial on shuttle buses and tourist vehicles, as Japan is trying to bring autonomous driving to the rural community to deal with the driver and mechanical deficit. Innovation between Chinese and Indian competition is also seen as a possible distinction.

“When we finally reached autonomous driving, it would be a big price to stop the vehicles stopping the hills without the driver because of the burst tire,” Masaki, the director of the new mobility business development, said that.

Computer simulations have helped to create a tire with a spoke structure bound to a rubber Trad, the spokes were able to bend and bend at higher speed and weight without comparing it with the previous airline tire of fuel costs, a smooth journey and protection.

The money of tires may reduce the risk of liability from autonomous driving accident due to low maintenance costs and punk.

However, experts fear that the design can fight to create a niche by spending several times compared to pumped tires. Instead of examining products in high-performance racing in Brigestone high-performance racing, the first argument of innovation has also reversed the low-performance vehicle for the mass market.

Michaelin’s Chief Executive Florent, Florent, said that replacing all pneumatic tires with airlines “is a utopia that will spend a lot”. The company has worked on Airlines for 20 years and has already placed its own version of Twil on small vehicles like Lonmaws in the United States.

“To go to a car from a lawnmoor, to drive at 50 km for an hour, other problems arise,” he said. One of these is the sound of the whirlwind, the risk of flying stones flying out of the spokes and maintaining high speed and weight performance over time, analysts say.

Michaelin has trial of airline uptis tires in small vans for his punchr-proof, delivery group DHL and La Post, but rubber and aluminum wheels remain in a prototype stage.

Managax said that the logistics groups were “very happy”, but Michaelin was not ready from an art perspective to take it further.

Brigestone Higashiomi is optimistic to pay for the customer interested in paying for air-free tires in a six-seat self-driving car in a hill region in the city, where more than 309 residents are older.

The OTA said, “We still couldn’t really reach this business and could not reach a clear view of what kind of market it would be.” “But we’re not waiting for the search.”

Incentives are mandatory for the main arrivals. According to the Tire Industry Research, expert advice, according to the tire industry research, the model of their business is under threat in cheap Chinese and Indian competition and has become tire products and they are losing about 5 percent of their total volume every year.

Instead, tire suppliers want to extend the services. Customers used to return to read regular air-free tires-expected for 10 years against three to five for the tire.

“They still do not know that they will work on providing lifetime, energy economy and all the technical requirements in the world,” said David Shaw, chief executive of Tire Industry Research.

But there was more potential than not success, he added, because “pneumatic tire is a pain”.