Bridgestone and Michelin test advances are in the ponxi-free tires

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Automotive parts supplier Bridgestone, never tests the pumption, potentially the path to driving, and testing the advances on the popular wheels.

The Japanese company Michelin, the French company Michelin, the world’s largest tire supply, has developed a free version of the air, driving a distance of 60 km in an hour, can make a great progress on solid tires in ten years ago.

The new computer has caused significant innovations to improve effective structures and materials, higher speeds and weights, because the driverless vehicles put a reward for security and no stop.

However, the benefits of pneumatic tires are quite tough to empty them the benefits and value benefits.

New tires are applied in Japan’s autonomy buses and tourism machines to solve the shortages of japanese drivers and mechanics. Innovation is also seen as a growing potential distinguishing in Chinese and Indian competition.

“When we finally come to the autonomous driver, vehicles will be a great value to prevent a deep tire in the mountains,” said Bridgestone’s new Military Mobility Mut Ota.

Computer simulations helped to create tires with a rubber structure in a rubber tore, leash and higher speed and weight in higher speed and weights, a smooth walk and safety compared to previous airless tires.

Tires can reduce the risk of repair costs and responsibility than autonomous driving accidents caused by punctures.

However, experts are afraid of design, the costs of production will be able to fight a niche carving of pump tires several times. Bridgestone has also turned the logic of innovation, targeting low-performance vehicles for the mass market instead of testing the product in high performance competitions.

“A very expensive utopia”, Michelin President Florent Menegaux said to replace all the pneumatic tires with airless ones. The company has been working on the tires for 20 years and has already been named Tweel, and called small vehicles in the United States.

“Going to a car from a lawyer creates other problems to go 50 km per hour,” he said. These include no cash voices, recognized and high-speed and weight performance in high speed and weight gain in high speed and quality protection.

For Michelin, DHL and La Poste, he continued to test the trials of a pencil-free, untreated tires in small minibuses, but rubber and aluminum wheels remain in the prototype stage.

Mikeux said Michelin’s “not ready for industrial terms.”

Bridgestone hopes to pay for free tires for free tires, like a six-seater in a mountainous area of ​​Higashiomi, which are older than half of the 309 residents.

“Honestly, we did not have a clear vision of how much this work will be in the market,” he said. “But we don’t expect to find it.”

The promotion of the main current Tiremaker is compulsory. Their business model tires are in a threat from China and India as well as a threat of China and India, and due to the tire industry research, the total volume of the total volume is losing 5 percent a year.

Instead, Tire suppliers want to expand in services. Customers will return regularly to return the airline free tires – will last until three to five years against pneumatic tires.

“Still, all the technical requirements of the fuel economy and the price of the world, the world needs, the world’s need, Dashed Industrial Studies CEO David Shav.

But the success is more, “Pneumatic tires are pain”, because he was more.