Tires have traditionally been exceedingly difficult to manage. That began to change over a decade ago, as the first tire sensors began giving fleets and drivers rudimentary data on tire pressure (and ...

STORY: These airless tires were invented by NASA for roving around on the Moon but now an LA-based company is bringing the technology back down to Earth, in the hopes of making punctures a thing of ...

The Ohio-based Smart Tire Company wants to change the bicycle tire game with its new airless bicycle tires. Specifically, the METL bicycle tire uses the NASA-developed shape-memory alloy (SMA) known ...

Cars have evolved into sophisticated computers on wheels. However, tires - the sole components in direct contact with the road - have long remained in the analog realm of black rubber. As the ...

The SMART Tire Company, in a partnership with NASA, is aiming to let the air out of your tires. In a good way, however, as the company wants to use the same kind of state-of-the-art airless tires that ...

What happens if an autonomous truck gets a flat tire? Kodiak and Bridgestone are working together to use technology to help keep that from being a problem. Bridgestone Americas is taking a minority ...

LOS ANGELES — SMART Tire Co. Inc., a 2020 startup enterprise founded to advance airless tire technology developed for NASA, won the 2022 Accelerate the Future Challenge, sponsored by South Korean car ...

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LOS ANGELES — SMART Tire Co. (STC) is accepting pre-orders for its "METL" airless bicycle tires — made from NASA-developed shape memory alloys — and disclosed it's working on a version for electric ...