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

  • sugartits@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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
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      10 months ago

      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?

      • herrvogel@lemmy.world
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        Traction is not the only factor. How does this new tire affect steering? How much noise does it make as it rolls on the ground? How much noise does it make as air flows over it at high speed? How durable is it? How does it handle high rotational speeds? How does it handle impact? How does it handle braking? How does it handle different weather and road conditions, different temperatures? How does it treat the road surface? And can it be manufactured at such huge scales? There are plenty of reasons why it might very well be completely unsuitable as car tires.

        • wahming@monyet.cc
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          10 months ago

          Yes? I’m not here claiming it’s the perfect car tire, I’m merely disputing parent’s comment

      • sugartits@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        That’s not inventing, that’s improving.

        The word is clearly being misused for clickbait purposes.

        • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          10 months ago

          They… Invented these tyres… Right? Just because stone wheels were a thing doesn’t mean that someone didn’t invent wooden wheels.

          Invent

          Verb: create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of.

          “he invented an improved form of the steam engine”

          • sugartits@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            “he invented an improved form of the steam engine”

            Literally the exact point I’m making.

            In that statement, he didn’t invent the steam engine. He invented an improved form of it. But not the steam engine itself.

            • Patch@feddit.uk
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              At some point we’re just getting bogged down in semantics. Someone invented the internal combustion engine, and the earliest versions ran on gaseous fuels. Somebody else “invented” versions that than on liquid fuels. Engines that ran on petrol (gas) and diesel were “invented” by separate people. Engines based on turbine, reciprocating pistons, and rotary mechanisms were all “invented” by separate people.

              The degree to which you consider any of those independent “inventions” versus simply modifying and improving existing inventions is essentially arbitrary.

                • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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                  10 months ago

                  Correct. Tvs are improvements on still images, which themselves are an improvement on pictographs, which are an improvement on transmission of ideas via language.

                  To be clear, we very much invented all of that.

    • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
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      10 months ago

      They didn’t invent the concept of punctureless wheels, but they certainly invented a set a wheels that are punctureless

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      Yeah, the first wheels couldn’t be punctured. Puncturable wheels are fairly modern.

    • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Why curse or get angry? The author got it wrong. You pointed it out. 👍 You also raised my blood pressure a smidge.

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      10 months ago

      Wheels that don’t puncture have been around for centuries

      What does that have to do with it? Those were a different design. Sure, this invention shares a couple of features with past inventions but that doesn’t mean it’s the same invention.

      Most puncture proof tires are too hard. A good tire is soft enough to have a large flat area where it touches the road (or some other shape, if the road is bumpy).