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Even if somehow Goodyear manages to get it out for other countries, it will be out of business in India. First of all the bumps and hazardous material thrown on road will cause a lot of pain as the magnetic induction used for mechanism will be damaged due to unbalanced movement on the road. Changing the complete magnetic unit if damaged will cost a lot. And when needed to replace tires the road assist services in India are not that good so then changing that heavy tires will be like hell. Overall this concept will most probably not work for Indian or countries which have similar roads.
Sigh.
If you missed it, the idea was for self driving vehicles. India doesn't really have that kind of an infrastructure (too many people in too small of a space).
Barring that, you're also incorrect because you assume the wheel sphere and containment assembly are affixed to the car. Why? If the sphere and containment were attached to the vehicle by a shock and spring you'd have something absolutely identical to what is being used today. The sphere assembly would be able to travel with the road, and the shock and spring would dispel and dampen the energy of this vertical travel by converting it into heat. It's the exact same technology as all of the other vehicles on the road today. If you want to do the math I'd suggest you look up "Mass-spring-damper system" in an engineering or physics textbook.
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It just occured to me:
They did NOT reinvent the wheel. Wheel's are circular.
They reinvented the sphere. Marketing dumbasses need to go back to geometry class...
People is glass houses should be mindful of throwing stones. A circle is two dimensional. A wheel is anything roughly resembling a disc. Neither of these things describe a modern tire. The thing that Good year sells is a Torus. It surrounds a hub and has a roughly circular cross section with the cross sections being equidistant from a central point.
It's obvious why they call it a wheel, given the common vernacular. Insulting people, based upon your own erroneous statements, is a losing proposition. Maybe a moment or two of introspection might allow us to be a bit more civil. I realize that's coming from me, but this really doesn't need to devolve into a fight about how you want to interpret terminology. There's more than enough here to discuss without dissecting individual words whose dictionary and common usage definitions differ.
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