Could Flat Tyres Become a Think of The Past? What Technology is Replacing the Inflated Tyre?
Nothing Is Replacing the Pneumatic Tire any time soon. Many things have been tried and rejected.
Solid tires are a common proposal.
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They existed before Pneumatic ones and get brought up every few years as the same new things. There are some differentces in materials, but they are really more or less the same in every iteration. They are worse than pneumatic tires in every way, except getting flats, and they never make any serious inroads. Solid tires exist on garden equipment and the really cheap wheelchairs meant for in-hospital use, but wherever ride quality is impotant and any surface except a smooth hard flooris expected, pneumatic tire it is.
The other commonly proposed solution is various mechanical dampening systems. Springs, shocks, etc.
Some of them are very pretty
They also all suck in coparison to the pneumatic tire. Thay are much heavier and have terriblem handling.
All that said, flats, while not completely cradicated, have become a lot less common than even 20 years ago. You get an occasional nail or screw, but tires "just go flat" almost never. The tire compounds have improved, and the tires have become cheaper,so people can replace them more often.
When the tire loses air, you can still drive, but with worse handling and lower speeds. Pretty much how you would with a solid tire.
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