Should Tesla 're-design the wheel' for CyberTruck?

[TyPope]

Follow this: A honeycomb tire that, instead of tread, had 3 strips of rubber around it. They are castelenated... when installed on a vehicle, a machine reaches in and "squeezes" the honeycomb while twisting it which makes the diameter decrease. Then, while it is squeezed, a rubber "contact" tread donut is put into place around the tyre. This is sort of like the old Semi-truck retread tires. Anyway, the thought is that instead of replacing the whole thing when the tread wears down, you only have to go in and get your tyres squeezed and have the old tread removed and the new one installed. This would be like getting a new set of tires without actually tossing out a whole tyre each time you needed a tire change. This would keep tyres from ending up in landfills and would also make tire changes faster. In theory, you wouldn't even need to have the inner tyre removed for tire changes. Landfills would have fewer tyres and you wouldn't get those water-filled tires which are havens for mosquitos. Though, to be fair, an old tire, cut in half making two round, half tyre chicken water troughs.

Whew, so many tires... or is it tyres?

 

[CyberGus]

Whew, so many tires... or is it tyres?

A "tyre" is exactly like a "tire", except on the wrong side of the road

 

[rr6013]

Follow this: A honeycomb tire that, instead of tread, had 3 strips of rubber around it. They are castelenated... when installed on a vehicle, a machine reaches in and "squeezes" the honeycomb while twisting it which makes the diameter decrease. Then, while it is squeezed, a rubber "contact" tread donut is put into place around the tyre. This is sort of like the old Semi-truck retread tires. Anyway, the thought is that instead of replacing the whole thing when the tread wears down, you only have to go in and get your tyres squeezed and have the old tread removed and the new one installed. This would be like getting a new set of tires without actually tossing out a whole tyre each time you needed a tire change. This would keep tyres from ending up in landfills and would also make tire changes faster. In theory, you wouldn't even need to have the inner tyre removed for tire changes. Landfills would have fewer tyres and you wouldn't get those water-filled tires which are havens for mosquitos. Though, to be fair, an old tire, cut in half making two round, half tyre chicken water troughs.

Whew, so many tires... or is it tyres?

 

[ldjessee]

I think retreads should be illegal, completely from a safety point of view.
It seems great until you have 50-100 lbs of rubber flying at you, or throw at your car or driven over by a car and thrown at you while on a motorcycle.
Not sure I would say how great a time is because you can re-tread it easier...