New concept tires change color when it is time for a new set of tires.

A better link:

How much fun that could be with some orange spray paint in a parking lot.

not a new concept at all. they've had that on motorcycle and bike tires for decades.

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Highways of the future? Not here.

Meanwhile, if you want to Google it? Netherlands to getglow in the dark highway

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And you still wouldn't get a ticket for it... it's shocking how many literally bald tires I see on some fairly "nice" vehicles. Not sure if people are just oblivious or figure that AWD will save them when they're driving on Maypops...

nate

"Save" them... from what...?

From: "N8N" Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving Subject: Re: Do the math on this? Date: 16 Feb 2006 10:06:42 -0800

"Obviously you don't have the experience necessary to make such statements, as it would take more than a tire failure to cause complete loss of control at 85ish. I've actually had a rear tire go down on me at >80 MPH and it was a total non-event. Unless there was an explosion, tread separation resulting in a "gator" or similar... not a problem."

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- gpsman

There actually used to be a MAYPOP used tires place near me.

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it's like watching that annoying neighbor kid grow up. and still be annoying and childish.

Um, hydroplaning when the roads get slightly damp?

Are you really as stupid as you act?

Oh, wait, we know that you are. It's amazing how you've been consistently demonstrating your lack of knowledge, reading comprehension, and critical thinking skills for what, going on a decade now? without a shred of self-awareness or embarrassment. That's got to be some kind of a record.

nate

In the search window, type Measuring Tire TredDepth With A Coin, click on GO.

don't you feel the slightest twinge of hypocrisy or even irony nagging at you when you write that? because each one of those are precisely and exactly what you exhibit here all the time.

i hope the answer is yes. because if not, then you're spectacularly stupid.

Really...?!

That's quite the tirade from someone who snipped their hasty generalization I quoted... -----

- gpsman

I snipped it because it wasn't relevant. We're talking about tread depth here, not a blowout. The former is significantly more dangerous than the latter, unless you drive exclusively on dry, clean roads.

nate

unspecified [lack of?] tread depth is significantly more dangerous than a blowout???

nate, i don't know what you're smoking, but when you have the temerity to accuse others of "lack of knowledge, reading comprehension, and critical thinking skills", yet you yourself go ahead and exactly and precisely demonstrate that it is YOU with each of those problems, my irony meter pegs. it would be entertaining if it wasn't so relentlessly pathetic.

It's relevant to you being full of shit, an unreliable narrator.

They're mutually exclusive...?

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- gpsman

Don't you feel the slightest twinge of hypocrisy? Just because you are just as dumb as gpstard doesn't mean that the rest of us aren't. Two peas in a pod, you two are. All that either one of you do is snipe at other posters, almost without exception those more intelligent than the both of you put together, without posting anything of substance or intelligence.

nate

Of course it is.

If you're driving on "racing slicks" they're dangerous whenever there's liquid on the ground, while the risk of a blowout is still very minimal.

Might I refer you to the Dunning-Kruger effect? Look it up in the dictionary; if it's an illustrated one you'll probably find your high school yearbook picture.

nate

You're driving along in the rain on tires with 2mm or less tread depth remaining.

Which is more likely to occur, hydroplaning or a blowout?

(never mind that a simple flat tire results in less pucker factor than a good high speed hydroplaning incident.)

show your work.

nate

You propose "dangerousness" can be measured solely by a single criteria, probability of occurrence, under a single condition, "rain"...?

I love when your posts become sequentially more stupid and you try to slyly imply your anecdotal experience is supposed to lend credibility to your blatantly stupid bullshit. -----

- gpsman

what an unbelievably stooopid statement. i /know/ when i'd driving slicks and can drive accordingly. i don't /know/ when i'm about to get a blowout.

um, no, that would be you. but you're hard-wired for incompetence and hypocrisy, so it's inevitable you'd accusing me of your own fault.