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NASA invented wheels that never get punctured::Would you use this type of tire?

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[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago (33 children)

NASA invented wheels that never get punctured

No they fucking didn't.

Wheels that don't puncture have been around for centuries

We don't use them because they are more shit than normal tyres for the majority of use cases.

Specific use cases, such as those faced by NASA may benefit from having such a feature, but to say they "invented" wheels that don't puncture is an outright lie.

Who the fuck wrote this trash?

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 61 points 9 months ago (18 children)

The Superelastic Tire offers traction equal or superior to conventional pneumatic tires and eliminates both the possibility of puncture failures and running “under-inflated”, thereby improving automobile fuel efficiency and safety. Also, this tire design does not require an inner frame which both simplifies and lightens the tire/wheel assembly.

Except that NASA's new tires are actually better than normal tires in the normal use cases. Hence the word invented. Did you actually read the article before criticising it?

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