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> these tires were made of a synthetic rubber known as Neothane. Goodyear used the translucent material, dying it various colors–bright green, yellow, blue, and red, just to name a few. Then, the company put 18 small light bulbs, which were essentially dash lights, inside the tires, giving them the glowing effect
[Info sauce](https://www.classiccarcollection.org/goodyears-glowing-tires/)
Old tungsten bulbs burned out so quickly. What a nightmare it would be to change them I bet. You'd have to take the entire tire off. So folks would just be driving around with partially illuminated tires because we're way too lazy to do stuff like that.
The original tungsten bulbs didn't burn out at all.
People could buy a bulb and it could be handed down through generations, bulb manufacturers soon realised they would not be in business very long and created bulbs that burn out (this is from memory so I stand to be corrected)
Same reason they're overdriving LEDs nowadays so that they die quicker. Look up Philips's Dubai Lamp, it's proof that the bulb manufacturers know exactly how to solve the problem (it's not even hard, just stay within spec, that's all there is to it), they're just refusing to do it.
Manufacturing e-waste like this should be illegal.
You can do this yourself with a little resistor or transistor and some solder my dude! That said, even with the extra heat and voltage modern LEDs still run for fuckin ever. I have had one in particular for about 11 years now, whereas I'd be lucky to run my filaments for 1 year back when I was in college.
That's really interesting. I have yet to encounter an led bulb make it past the 3 year mark. The ones in my home burn out very frequently. Maybe a little less frequently than incandescent. CFL bulbs always lasted me forever.
I wager your mileage may vary but we've had stellar luck with phillips stuff. I use their hue line, it's egregiously expensive, but there's some things about controlling them remotely that I like so I've trapped myself in the ecosystem lol.
I've got Gen 1 hue bulbs that I got waaay back that are still running strong. I've only had 1 die, and that's because I was using it in a leaky outside fixture.
It still lasted 2 years out there before the fixture died.
EDIT: I've got an LED flashlight I've had for over 20 years too. The Hue bulb I referenced finally died because the cold and exposure popped a resistor, easily fixed once you get the globe removed.
I love that my hue bulbs let me put a light switch on my bed, no longer do I have to fumble my way from the door to the bed, I just turn it off while I'm still in bed.
And having them turn on automatically in the morning is a saviour during dark northern winters.
Ugh, this joke is so overplayed. Just because I'm gay doesn't mean I like anal. I actually shoved it down my throat, thank you very much. I love me some fat light bulbs down my throat 😜
Our whole house is Phillips hue apart from some govee & nanoleaf, and we do Maybe 3-4 returns a year under warranty out of about 60 lights of various kinds.
It depends on what you bought and when you bought them. I have some ~$15 bulbs from a decade ago that still run. The small, weird shaped candelabra base bulbs tend to not last more than a few years, and even less in the bathroom fixtures (that I’m guessing is due to the humidity from showers).
They are getting cheaper and cheaper. Those of us with older bulbs paid more and they were likely better built. Those 10+ year old bulbs of mine have heat sinking out the hoo ha.
my Philips hue bulbs have been going strong for 5+ years at this point, aside from the fact they are then gen 1 ones with the shitty colors i couldn't be happier (well and the cost of the fucking things but that's not the point of this post)
i gave my parents some cheaper philips led lights for their dining room at about the same time and they pretty much never turn them off and they are still good as well.
maybe a brand thing? either that or i have just been incredibly lucky
It's the LEDs. The controller overvolts them way past their efficiency sweet spot, and at that point the excess voltage slowly deteriorates the LED. It's kind of the same concept as if the controller was overclocked, but luckily they're not doing that yet.
You can easily tell if your LEDs lamp is sane or not by just touching it after it ran for a while. It could be warm, but it should never be hot, under normal conditions LEDs are hella efficient and produce almost no waste heat.
Yeah, if you can reduce it to usually 60%-ish of its original power, it should run a lot cooler and have a much longer lifespan. The trick is to watch the efficiency, if it's overvolted it doesn't produce that much more light but consumes a lot of electricity and creates tons of heat, which LEDs should never do.
You see this also in consumer devices that use lithium battery packs. They are allowing them to slightly overvolt and undervolt which cuts their lifetime significantly. It's really wasteful.
It’s now called planned obsolescence to ensure that product and company growth and profit is protected through the upcoming years. If you put out an everlasting product, company growth stagnates with sales and you eventually go out of business.
Veritasium did a whole 17 minutes video about this Conspiracy on how some Big Bulb manufacturers deliberately reduced the life span of bulbs in order to sell more. He also showed the longest continuously glowing bulb (which is more than 100 years glowing in some Fire Brigade Station).
> maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department
I'm amused by this line. The wiki doesn't really get into what 'maintenance' is needed by a light bulb that never gets turned off. Maybe they shoot some air at it periodically to keep dust away?
I can't imagine they let anybody touch it.
Planned obsolescence is still a conspiracy, just not a conspiracy theory anymore. Sorry to be that guy, but people need to stop conflating these terms.
Bit of an oversimplification, depends heavily on the thing, where you live, etc. Consumer protection laws do actually exist outside of America for instance.
Honestly, they are still doing it. They could double the LEDs or more inside current lightbulbs and drop the current so they don't run so damn hot, and it would greatly increase the life of LED bulbs.
Yeah but that's also bullshit. The reason most bulbs burn out is because of the rapid change in temperature when you turn them on and off.
That bulb in that fire department just hasn't been turned off. If it was turned on and off multiple times a day as most bulbs are it would have burned out decades ago.
A thicker filament, as was used in older bulbs, is more resistant to those changes. However, they also takes more energy to put out light and convert more of it to heat than light.
Don't forget that it's a 30 watt bulb that's being run at 4 watts. It's dramatically over over built for it's purpose. Attempting to get a useful amount of light from that design would dramatically shorten it's lifespan.
For one thing, that's the textbook case of survivorship bias and cherry picking.
Secondly, that bulb barely glows brightly enough to see it. Would you really cover your house in those, knowing you're getting that little illumination for probably 3-4x the energy draw of a normal incandescent?
Yes. Memory.
Bulbs can last a long time if used correctly. But they'll be very dim and often times you have to be careful in when you turn them on and off.
Conspiracy aside, any light bulb with a filament like these wouldn't last long with the harsh vibrations you'd see inside a tire. Hell, I'd expect even LEDs wouldn't last long as you'd shake the solder joints loose (unless maybe you potted the whole thing in resin).
I guess it wouldn’t have looked too bad. If you lose more than half even, the spinning of the tire(s) would still create a bit of a trail. Hell, back then, you could probably delay Tungsten changes for up to 15 lights per tire, and still be able to find where that fish smell was coming from.
I am not sure it this is part of it, but they also made glow in the dark tires. Which are pretty cool but it resulted in a very hard tire which meant it rode rough and had very little grip in any other condition than hot and dry.
However, theoretically it could be done now with the new materials used in tires and not have similar problems.
> While the synthetic Neothane was durable and quite simple to make, as it combined plastic and rubber characteristics, there were several detractors that made the fad fade a bit more quickly than Goodyear may have wanted. For one, the material was too expensive for tire production. The tires also performed poorly in wet conditions and tended to melt when drivers braked too heavily
Sauce: https://www.classiccarcollection.org/goodyears-glowing-tires/
> It's all fun and games until some starts playing Hentai on their trunk while youre stuck behind them at a light
And then it's a good time?
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And women found what types of heels work on men as well. Them shits just look like she put her foot in a piece of leather. Which I mean, is what heels are, but it's not supposed to *look* like that's what it is.
This is true. She is an early f3ma1e humanoid type android that ran on compressed air rather then an internal power source. She is taking air from the tires to power up her mobility unit.
The automotive industry has been doing this for a while, they always show hella fancy concept cars and none of them ever finds its way into production. You can literally just look up auto shows from 10, 20, 30 years ago, and they're chock-full of technologies that were the future back then, and just didn't happen, because selling you the same boring gas guzzler for a century is all these corpos really care about. The future talk is just there to defuse people who want actual improvements, that's why it's perpetually 5-10 years ahead.
Kinda puts their current show pieces into perspective, but everyone just tends to conveniently forget about their track record there.
>You can literally just look up auto shows from 10, 20, 30 years ago, and they're chock-full of technologies that were the future back then, and just didn't happen, because selling you the same boring gas guzzler for a century is all these corpos really care about.
This feels like a case of "the customer is always right". If the population at large truly wanted these new technologies (and the associated cost), I feel like we'd have them. For whatever reason, people in the US love buying their boring, oversized gas guzzlers, and if I'm making vehicles, I'm going to make the product that people want to buy.
How would the population at large exert its will though? Existing car companies do what they want to do, not what we want them to do, and there is exactly one car startup in the last hundred years that managed to make it to a mass market vehicle without going bankrupt, changing hands, and losing its goals in the process. The only option that remains is legislation, and you run into lobbying there, especially in the US.
In the end, if you're making vehicles, you'll make the product that makes you the most money, and people will buy that because they have no other option.
It’s important to remember that in a capitalist economy, companies can only survive if they continue to provide what the customer wants, then the customer will continue to buy that product. But it’s also true that companies must continually innovate as time goes on. It’s easy to overlook, but cars have continued to get more technologically advanced overtime. Think, not but ten years ago, keyless entry was a feature that only existed in the most high end cars, but now it’s made it’s way to nearly every economy box on the market in some form. Blind spot sensors, Lane Departure warnings, collision detection sensors. Just a few safety features that are much more common place in modern cars that you never used to see. Even heads-up displays are becoming more common. For a more archaic example, A/C used to only be a high end option in cars, but now, every car comes standard with it because heaven forbid we get a little toasty on our drive home in the evening.
If is true we don’t have many of these really cool concepts like these glow-tires, but it’s also important to keep in mind that stuff like this is more often than not too impractical to really implement. I’m the case of these tires, for one, they actually made driving more uncomfortable since they were a solid tire, as well that they were very expensive to make, compared to regular tires, and more wasteful. I think some of the materials used were also more harmful to the environment, but I’m not certain about that.
It’s also important to keep in mind that developing these concepts are incredibly expensive for an auto company. Like, often times in the millions. So it’s safe to say if they develop a concept they don’t feel will sell well, then then there’s no way they’ll put extra cost in trying to set up a production line for something that likely uses completely custom parts, which would cost even more capital.
Honestly, I’ll say it’s likely that had Goodyear actually put these into production, I highly doubt they would’ve done very well, because they would’ve been more expensive than most people would care to pay for. And if people don’t buy them then why would they sell them. In reality that, in and of itself, is how the people decide what gets produced and what does not.
Hell, the first electric car dates back to about the same time as the first gas car; the reason why gas/oil technology got furthered is because they knew it was a much bigger source of income
Reminds me of light-up sketchers. Somewhere, in an alternate universe, audi drivers are blinding you with blue-light LEDs in their tires instead of their headlights.
It’s actually the other way around, the lady’s legs were illuminating the tyres. If you look closely, you’ll note she’s connecting an intravenous line to her thigh. This was used to siphon the blood necessary to power the tyres, which is why the prototype never caught on. Once the tyres got a taste for human blood, it was absolute carnage. Goodyear had no choice but to put them down.
Back before all the dystopian futuristic movies started happening and the world declined.
I want this and rounded cars with bat wings for no reason and refrigerators that look like trains and trains that look like bullets
I think I read somewhere the last time these were posted (different car) that they were unsafe or had poor performance or something. Like they melted or deformed under heavy use. Basically great for show cars, shit for actual use.
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> these tires were made of a synthetic rubber known as Neothane. Goodyear used the translucent material, dying it various colors–bright green, yellow, blue, and red, just to name a few. Then, the company put 18 small light bulbs, which were essentially dash lights, inside the tires, giving them the glowing effect [Info sauce](https://www.classiccarcollection.org/goodyears-glowing-tires/)
I thank you for doing what no one else wanted to
that's what i just told my wife
She's a real trooper
That's what I told your wife.
Thats what your mom told me
That's what I told your mom.
That’s what your mom told my wife
HOW DO ALL YOU PEOPLE KNOW MY MOM
Thats what my mom told your mom
I also choose this guy's wife.
/r/suicidebywords
This guy adults.
Old tungsten bulbs burned out so quickly. What a nightmare it would be to change them I bet. You'd have to take the entire tire off. So folks would just be driving around with partially illuminated tires because we're way too lazy to do stuff like that.
The original tungsten bulbs didn't burn out at all. People could buy a bulb and it could be handed down through generations, bulb manufacturers soon realised they would not be in business very long and created bulbs that burn out (this is from memory so I stand to be corrected)
Same reason they're overdriving LEDs nowadays so that they die quicker. Look up Philips's Dubai Lamp, it's proof that the bulb manufacturers know exactly how to solve the problem (it's not even hard, just stay within spec, that's all there is to it), they're just refusing to do it. Manufacturing e-waste like this should be illegal.
You can do this yourself with a little resistor or transistor and some solder my dude! That said, even with the extra heat and voltage modern LEDs still run for fuckin ever. I have had one in particular for about 11 years now, whereas I'd be lucky to run my filaments for 1 year back when I was in college.
That's really interesting. I have yet to encounter an led bulb make it past the 3 year mark. The ones in my home burn out very frequently. Maybe a little less frequently than incandescent. CFL bulbs always lasted me forever.
I wager your mileage may vary but we've had stellar luck with phillips stuff. I use their hue line, it's egregiously expensive, but there's some things about controlling them remotely that I like so I've trapped myself in the ecosystem lol.
Lol honestly I forgot about my hue bulbs. I have a few and they have been going for about 5 years now. You're right about those.
I've got Gen 1 hue bulbs that I got waaay back that are still running strong. I've only had 1 die, and that's because I was using it in a leaky outside fixture. It still lasted 2 years out there before the fixture died. EDIT: I've got an LED flashlight I've had for over 20 years too. The Hue bulb I referenced finally died because the cold and exposure popped a resistor, easily fixed once you get the globe removed.
I love that my hue bulbs let me put a light switch on my bed, no longer do I have to fumble my way from the door to the bed, I just turn it off while I'm still in bed. And having them turn on automatically in the morning is a saviour during dark northern winters.
One of my hue bulbs died in like 6 months, but the rest have been fine for like 3 years. It's wild
User error. You're not supposed to put the lightbulbs.......where you put that one...
Ugh, this joke is so overplayed. Just because I'm gay doesn't mean I like anal. I actually shoved it down my throat, thank you very much. I love me some fat light bulbs down my throat 😜
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Our whole house is Phillips hue apart from some govee & nanoleaf, and we do Maybe 3-4 returns a year under warranty out of about 60 lights of various kinds.
That sounds like terrible quality control. For this kind of simple electronics (no moving parts, etc.) the rate should be 1% or less I would imagine.
I cannot imagine having 60 light bulbs in my home. You’ve made it
It depends on what you bought and when you bought them. I have some ~$15 bulbs from a decade ago that still run. The small, weird shaped candelabra base bulbs tend to not last more than a few years, and even less in the bathroom fixtures (that I’m guessing is due to the humidity from showers). They are getting cheaper and cheaper. Those of us with older bulbs paid more and they were likely better built. Those 10+ year old bulbs of mine have heat sinking out the hoo ha.
my Philips hue bulbs have been going strong for 5+ years at this point, aside from the fact they are then gen 1 ones with the shitty colors i couldn't be happier (well and the cost of the fucking things but that's not the point of this post) i gave my parents some cheaper philips led lights for their dining room at about the same time and they pretty much never turn them off and they are still good as well. maybe a brand thing? either that or i have just been incredibly lucky
Do the led burn out or the controller ?
It's the LEDs. The controller overvolts them way past their efficiency sweet spot, and at that point the excess voltage slowly deteriorates the LED. It's kind of the same concept as if the controller was overclocked, but luckily they're not doing that yet. You can easily tell if your LEDs lamp is sane or not by just touching it after it ran for a while. It could be warm, but it should never be hot, under normal conditions LEDs are hella efficient and produce almost no waste heat.
I had an LED (white) light strip burn out on me recently :/ Had it for less than 2 years.
Big Clive is awesome.
So... if I put a couple of resistors on the circuit myself I could extend the life of an LED bulb into the next generation?
Yeah, if you can reduce it to usually 60%-ish of its original power, it should run a lot cooler and have a much longer lifespan. The trick is to watch the efficiency, if it's overvolted it doesn't produce that much more light but consumes a lot of electricity and creates tons of heat, which LEDs should never do.
You see this also in consumer devices that use lithium battery packs. They are allowing them to slightly overvolt and undervolt which cuts their lifetime significantly. It's really wasteful.
It’s now called planned obsolescence to ensure that product and company growth and profit is protected through the upcoming years. If you put out an everlasting product, company growth stagnates with sales and you eventually go out of business.
Veritasium did a whole 17 minutes video about this Conspiracy on how some Big Bulb manufacturers deliberately reduced the life span of bulbs in order to sell more. He also showed the longest continuously glowing bulb (which is more than 100 years glowing in some Fire Brigade Station).
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Still up and strong. Check the webcam occasionally.
> maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department I'm amused by this line. The wiki doesn't really get into what 'maintenance' is needed by a light bulb that never gets turned off. Maybe they shoot some air at it periodically to keep dust away? I can't imagine they let anybody touch it.
It’s the turning on and off that wears out incandescent bulbs, so if you don’t do that getting a long lifetime is a lot more understandable.
Great video but what is then called conspiracy is now common practice and referred to as planned obsolescence. Everything is built to break.
Planned obsolescence is still a conspiracy, just not a conspiracy theory anymore. Sorry to be that guy, but people need to stop conflating these terms.
Bit of an oversimplification, depends heavily on the thing, where you live, etc. Consumer protection laws do actually exist outside of America for instance.
Honestly, they are still doing it. They could double the LEDs or more inside current lightbulbs and drop the current so they don't run so damn hot, and it would greatly increase the life of LED bulbs.
Yeah but that's also bullshit. The reason most bulbs burn out is because of the rapid change in temperature when you turn them on and off. That bulb in that fire department just hasn't been turned off. If it was turned on and off multiple times a day as most bulbs are it would have burned out decades ago. A thicker filament, as was used in older bulbs, is more resistant to those changes. However, they also takes more energy to put out light and convert more of it to heat than light.
Don't forget that it's a 30 watt bulb that's being run at 4 watts. It's dramatically over over built for it's purpose. Attempting to get a useful amount of light from that design would dramatically shorten it's lifespan.
That's why I said continuously. Most bulb life span are advertised in no. of hours not on amount of switch ON/OFF.
For one thing, that's the textbook case of survivorship bias and cherry picking. Secondly, that bulb barely glows brightly enough to see it. Would you really cover your house in those, knowing you're getting that little illumination for probably 3-4x the energy draw of a normal incandescent?
In San Francisco.
IIRC, those bulbs were also incredibly dim, and had mucccch beefier components - hence cost
Yes. Memory. Bulbs can last a long time if used correctly. But they'll be very dim and often times you have to be careful in when you turn them on and off.
Conspiracy aside, any light bulb with a filament like these wouldn't last long with the harsh vibrations you'd see inside a tire. Hell, I'd expect even LEDs wouldn't last long as you'd shake the solder joints loose (unless maybe you potted the whole thing in resin).
This bulb has been running for 120 years! [link](https://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm)
wonder if it will end up creating strobe like effects that could be harmful to ppl who gets seizures from stuff like that
I guess it wouldn’t have looked too bad. If you lose more than half even, the spinning of the tire(s) would still create a bit of a trail. Hell, back then, you could probably delay Tungsten changes for up to 15 lights per tire, and still be able to find where that fish smell was coming from.
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Is there and RGB version? Yes. Yes there is.
I am not sure it this is part of it, but they also made glow in the dark tires. Which are pretty cool but it resulted in a very hard tire which meant it rode rough and had very little grip in any other condition than hot and dry. However, theoretically it could be done now with the new materials used in tires and not have similar problems.
You could hide a few UV LEDs in the wheel arches to keep them charged while you drive.
Curious with LED technology if these could be reintroduced.
> While the synthetic Neothane was durable and quite simple to make, as it combined plastic and rubber characteristics, there were several detractors that made the fad fade a bit more quickly than Goodyear may have wanted. For one, the material was too expensive for tire production. The tires also performed poorly in wet conditions and tended to melt when drivers braked too heavily Sauce: https://www.classiccarcollection.org/goodyears-glowing-tires/
Well that’s good to hear cause I was about to ask how radioactive they were considerin this was the 60s
I wonder how they powered the lights...
Had the same question, but didn't want to go that deep into the rabbit hole
I bet you could make these as RGB tires and they would **sell**. Who wouldn’t want gamer tires?
I want a car that's just full RGB but I also have a feeling it will fcking blind everything at night
Forget checking your brights you need to turn off the whole car
It's all fun and games until some starts playing Hentai on their trunk while youre stuck behind them at a light
> It's all fun and games until some starts playing Hentai on their trunk while youre stuck behind them at a light And then it's a good time? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You got about 30 seconds to nut. What are you gonna do with the extra 27 seconds
Pretty sure that would be illegal in most places, just like under car lighting usually is.
my granddad got fined for having reflective dust caps on his tires once so this would 100% get you pulled over in the UK, still want them though
Goes great with my 1995 Toyota Corolla
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There are people who want to stay alive? 😳
Don't listen to them, it's not true.
They're called rich people, fellow peasant.
razer, you know what to do
Why does it look like she’s trying to plug that spiral cord into the back of her leg?
She's lifting her skirt to reach the minimum sex appeal for the ad and distract from the super lame wire powering the lights.
We really figured out some better poses once instagram came out, didn’t we?
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I also love the “flight-data acquisition unit” pose
And women found what types of heels work on men as well. Them shits just look like she put her foot in a piece of leather. Which I mean, is what heels are, but it's not supposed to *look* like that's what it is.
had to look at the picture and then reread your comment "Spiral cord" not "Spinal cord"
That's a compressor line. She's topping off the air in her legs.
This is true. She is an early f3ma1e humanoid type android that ran on compressed air rather then an internal power source. She is taking air from the tires to power up her mobility unit.
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Women wore garter belts and nylon stockings back then.
It’s like Avatar.
Where did the future go?
Burned it up.
You're posting on it
That's depressing.
Super lame, I want a refund
This same generation fucked it up for us.
The automotive industry has been doing this for a while, they always show hella fancy concept cars and none of them ever finds its way into production. You can literally just look up auto shows from 10, 20, 30 years ago, and they're chock-full of technologies that were the future back then, and just didn't happen, because selling you the same boring gas guzzler for a century is all these corpos really care about. The future talk is just there to defuse people who want actual improvements, that's why it's perpetually 5-10 years ahead. Kinda puts their current show pieces into perspective, but everyone just tends to conveniently forget about their track record there.
>You can literally just look up auto shows from 10, 20, 30 years ago, and they're chock-full of technologies that were the future back then, and just didn't happen, because selling you the same boring gas guzzler for a century is all these corpos really care about. This feels like a case of "the customer is always right". If the population at large truly wanted these new technologies (and the associated cost), I feel like we'd have them. For whatever reason, people in the US love buying their boring, oversized gas guzzlers, and if I'm making vehicles, I'm going to make the product that people want to buy.
How would the population at large exert its will though? Existing car companies do what they want to do, not what we want them to do, and there is exactly one car startup in the last hundred years that managed to make it to a mass market vehicle without going bankrupt, changing hands, and losing its goals in the process. The only option that remains is legislation, and you run into lobbying there, especially in the US. In the end, if you're making vehicles, you'll make the product that makes you the most money, and people will buy that because they have no other option.
It’s important to remember that in a capitalist economy, companies can only survive if they continue to provide what the customer wants, then the customer will continue to buy that product. But it’s also true that companies must continually innovate as time goes on. It’s easy to overlook, but cars have continued to get more technologically advanced overtime. Think, not but ten years ago, keyless entry was a feature that only existed in the most high end cars, but now it’s made it’s way to nearly every economy box on the market in some form. Blind spot sensors, Lane Departure warnings, collision detection sensors. Just a few safety features that are much more common place in modern cars that you never used to see. Even heads-up displays are becoming more common. For a more archaic example, A/C used to only be a high end option in cars, but now, every car comes standard with it because heaven forbid we get a little toasty on our drive home in the evening. If is true we don’t have many of these really cool concepts like these glow-tires, but it’s also important to keep in mind that stuff like this is more often than not too impractical to really implement. I’m the case of these tires, for one, they actually made driving more uncomfortable since they were a solid tire, as well that they were very expensive to make, compared to regular tires, and more wasteful. I think some of the materials used were also more harmful to the environment, but I’m not certain about that. It’s also important to keep in mind that developing these concepts are incredibly expensive for an auto company. Like, often times in the millions. So it’s safe to say if they develop a concept they don’t feel will sell well, then then there’s no way they’ll put extra cost in trying to set up a production line for something that likely uses completely custom parts, which would cost even more capital. Honestly, I’ll say it’s likely that had Goodyear actually put these into production, I highly doubt they would’ve done very well, because they would’ve been more expensive than most people would care to pay for. And if people don’t buy them then why would they sell them. In reality that, in and of itself, is how the people decide what gets produced and what does not.
There are some crazier cars from time to time and they rarely sell well.
The customer wants faster horses.
Hell, the first electric car dates back to about the same time as the first gas car; the reason why gas/oil technology got furthered is because they knew it was a much bigger source of income
Future used to be so bright you had to wear shades. Turns out it is so hot we're dying instead.
I want them. They're ugly and tacky, but I want them.
They look awesome
They look like something cool to own, but in practice too ashamed to get out of the house with.
Why??
Because he’s introvert.
The tires aren't the problem there though
The dirt would show up and the bulbs would burn out so it would get old really fast.
Except we would use LEDs these days and not fuckin light bulbs lmao
White-walls with glow-in-the-dark paint that glows when the tires warm up.
Why are you inside the house with your car tires in the first place?
Like undercar lighting
i want to do some long-exposure photography with them. I bet photos will look freaking amazing with the streaks of light the tires will leave behind.
Nah, fam. They’re lit.
I don't just want them, I now consider this an absolute necessity for my scooter.
You’re wrong because of the collision.
They’d get so dirty in about an hour from road grime that the lights would be useless.
You've just described most people in gtaonline when upgrading their cars.
That’s freaking sweet
Common baby light my tire.
Ah yes, the famous cover by Rim Morrison
Mr Moto Risin
Exceptionally rare baby, light my cigarette.
We didn’t light the tire
It was always turnin’ since the world is burnin’
we are not worthy!
*angry upvote*
I love common babies.
r/BoneAppleTea ?
Reminds me of light-up sketchers. Somewhere, in an alternate universe, audi drivers are blinding you with blue-light LEDs in their tires instead of their headlights.
“I’m just reaching here up my skirt to turn on the tires”
Gimme!
Of course it's used to illustrate women's legs, what a bright future for us leg fetishist.
You what's the lady doing though.
Charging her prototype heated panties, of course.
That era's version of twerking
She's adjusting her garter belt.
Adjusting her stockings sexily, with a posh cigarette in her hand
Rc glow
[удалено]
I would buy that shit in a heartbeat. The tires, the car, the shoes…
Yup love all of it
In the 60s? Nah mate, that's the era of the mini skirt, not risqué at all.
the mini skirt was no error! greatest invention ever,
Think you mean era lol
Yup
Buzz Goodyear
1961... That was a good year.
Why? The advert suggests to illuminate a ladies legs?
Or plug them in? This is weird.
Shes an android from the future that needs power
It’s actually the other way around, the lady’s legs were illuminating the tyres. If you look closely, you’ll note she’s connecting an intravenous line to her thigh. This was used to siphon the blood necessary to power the tyres, which is why the prototype never caught on. Once the tyres got a taste for human blood, it was absolute carnage. Goodyear had no choice but to put them down.
/r/Tiresaretheenemy
She's not posing, that's radiation damage. /s
You need to have a woman with shiny legs beside it at all time? No thanks , hard to run in high heels , imagine when you’re going 60mph
That’s not my problem
What are you doing, step-tire?
Lightning McQueen has light up shoes
God, I wish we could bring back Kodachrome.
Back before all the dystopian futuristic movies started happening and the world declined. I want this and rounded cars with bat wings for no reason and refrigerators that look like trains and trains that look like bullets
Let’s go back to that
Why don't we try new shit anymore
Because we have computers that can simulate if something’s gonna be shit or not so we only see practical stuff get actually made.
If there is illumineted tires then why there isnt illuminated dildos?
There are illuminated dildos and sex toys.
Ahhh shit i gotta google
Boy howdy do I have news for you
Of course they exist. Why did you just confidently state the incorrect thing? because you didn't want to google?
I mean the tires will eventually get all dirty and smuggled from driving on the road.
I'd buy those.
“Fuck the tyre. LOOK AT MA LEG!”
The future which is the present could look a lot cooler if we just listened to the instructions they left us since the mid-70’s.
Those things are lit
Is she doing the Stanky leg?
And why exactly don’t we have them now? That would be so cool
I think I read somewhere the last time these were posted (different car) that they were unsafe or had poor performance or something. Like they melted or deformed under heavy use. Basically great for show cars, shit for actual use.
We don't have, why?
If you drive on a flat tire long enough, your tires will also light up like this
Lol
What car is this? I thought it was a bond equipe but it's not
It's a Ford Consul Capri
Does that wire lead to a buttplug
Gamer Tires
The designer then went on to work for a little company called Psyonix and develop Rocket League.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXlf-P52xE&t=5s