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Doesn't really look that good, but interesting idea.

Id think you'd still need to enclose them, imagine a stick or pipe getting caught inside them and ripping out the bottom of your car, you'd be hella pissed

Yeah true, but they could probally make them look like normal tires minus the air.

This would be great if it became available to the average consumer for cars. Making tens of millions of them a year and burning or burying them doesn't help the atmosphere much at all.
Not to mention it takes gallons of oil to make every tire today.

yeah, MSN had a good video of that way back at the NAIAS... here's the video.

looks like shit

The HavoX wrote:looks like shit

yes, because technology is all about the looks

I think the moon lander used a similar concept.

Dekard wrote:Id think you'd still need to enclose them, imagine a stick or pipe getting caught inside them and ripping out the bottom of your car, you'd be hella pissed

the same could be said for snazzy alloys, it's not too much of a problem

Well it looks like crap because they don't have the innards of the tire covered but it'd be easy to cover that up with rubber to make it look like a regular tire.

dunno how that would work for low profile tires...

lol, it's a low profile tire already.

What happens if I try to drift with those things? Will the little rubber strings tear?

Well super low profile, those don't look that low...

Weirdness...

Seems like a good idea

Dekard wrote:Id think you'd still need to enclose them, imagine a stick or pipe getting caught inside them and ripping out the bottom of your car, you'd be hella pissed

Why doesn't that happen with any of the eleventy hundred different spoked wheels on the market now?

ooo burn...

The wheels can be retreaded from what I heard.

Nightshade wrote:

Dekard wrote:Id think you'd still need to enclose them, imagine a stick or pipe getting caught inside them and ripping out the bottom of your car, you'd be hella pissed

Why doesn't that happen with any of the eleventy hundred different spoked wheels on the market now?

I didn't say the 'spokes of the rim' It's about 1/2 inch of rubber before the inbetween section of the tires. Plus it's harder in 'regular' rims because of the brake pad and disk taken up the majority of the space behind them.

Anyhow, it would most likely be hard for something to get stuck in them at 50+ mph

I don't think that gap is a split in the wheel halves. It looks to be more of a channel for water ala Goodyear Gatorbacks or Aquatreads.