Photo: Continental
Here’s more proof that the human race will evolve into brainless blobs of fat that won’t need to do anything, like in Wall-E perhaps. Not even check if their tires on the car they drive daily are ok or not.
Normally, checking your tire’s tread depth is an operation you need to do about once a year or so, especially if you drive a lot and tend to abuse the tires in the bends or do burnouts.
And it’s an operation so simple even a toddler can perform. You only need a narrow ruler which you have to insert into the tread and see how deep it is and if it still corresponds with the limit. Or check if the tread wear indicators have reached the contact surface of the tire.
But as with every other piece of technology today designed to “make life easier” for more cash, Continental Tire decided you definitely need a sensor for your lazy you-know-what in order to know when a tire change is required.
Yeah, one of the most successful tire-making company is now investing money and time on developing a next-gen tire pressure monitoring device that will also measure the tread depth for you.
The system is said to use advanced software working together with in-tire pressure sensors and gather information based on tire deformation and rolling characteristics. Then, the data is compared with the one collected when the tire was new so it will tell you if you’re running onsleeks slicks or not.
We are eager for some company to make the first safety system that warns the driver to turn on the wipers when it starts raining. Oh, wait... we already have automatic wipers...
And it’s an operation so simple even a toddler can perform. You only need a narrow ruler which you have to insert into the tread and see how deep it is and if it still corresponds with the limit. Or check if the tread wear indicators have reached the contact surface of the tire.
But as with every other piece of technology today designed to “make life easier” for more cash, Continental Tire decided you definitely need a sensor for your lazy you-know-what in order to know when a tire change is required.
Yeah, one of the most successful tire-making company is now investing money and time on developing a next-gen tire pressure monitoring device that will also measure the tread depth for you.
The system is said to use advanced software working together with in-tire pressure sensors and gather information based on tire deformation and rolling characteristics. Then, the data is compared with the one collected when the tire was new so it will tell you if you’re running on
We are eager for some company to make the first safety system that warns the driver to turn on the wipers when it starts raining. Oh, wait... we already have automatic wipers...
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