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

  • wahming@monyet.cc
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    9 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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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

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

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      9 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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        9 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”

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          9 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.

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            9 months ago

            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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                9 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.