I think the point there is merely that the tyres take the suspension hit, making it a smoother experience than your whole car juttering about, I guess it would just be a small feeling of going up and down.

I imagine you still need to approach speed bumps slowly, if you took it too hard, I'm sure the tyre would crack or break from the immediate clash. I also imagine that by the time the materials in these tyres exist/become affordable mainstream, all cars would be driven by AI, making speed bumps largely unnecessary.

Tyres that allow you to ignore speed bumps, that seems safe.

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Awww... they stole my idea for that eMembrane tyre with the variable grip.

Well, back to my mind's drawing board.

Not really, because the tyre failure was after he set the record... and any landing you can walk away from is a good landing

Thanks anyway though.
>> ^ant:

*fail

Thought this looked familiar...and it does.
http://videosift.com/video/INCREDIBLE-Machine-Makes-Tyres-Fridges-Couches-Instantly

>> ^NaMeCaF:

It looks like it rolls like a flat tyre tho, so you'll be using more petrol.
looks like != is

It looks like it rolls like a flat tyre tho, so you'll be using more petrol.

If one of his tyres blows out, he's a dead man.

Except the gears and the tyres and the pedals and the brakes.

>> ^renatojj:

Wow... that was so unbelievable I have to call it fake. Doesn't matter if it actually happened, that's some real fake shit right there.


Never worked in either a tire change shop, or apprenticed as a mechanic huh? So back in my mid teens I was working in one, we had this retread come in. This was back before the government mandated that all 2nd retreads had to be tubed. While the air was going into the tire, the retread blew and took the machine out. Well there went $18k. We found chunks of aluminum from the machine in the concrete walls of the shop. We were lucky no one was seriously injured or killed, but shit like that does happen from time to time.

A car tire can blow out your eardrum, a truck tire can take out chunks of your arm if you're unlucky, it will break it easily enough. Hell, I've had a truck tire blow out the side window in my car from the air pressure on the highway when they went.

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He probably bled out seeing as it looks to me like he was fleeing the scene. Chinese Law is notoriously strict he was probably more scared of being arrested than he was worried about his arm spewing blood like a bilge pump.

[edit] I nominate him for a Darwin Award.

>> ^Fade:

according to the site I originally saw this on the dude died from his injury.

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