Owners, for instance, put low-rolling-resistance tires on their vehicles to squeeze more miles from a gallon of gasoline. And they work, especially if drivers don’t apply a lead foot to the accelerator pedal. Manufacturers and vehicle owners are doing all…
The advance of technology is ever mesmerizing. Things that used to be top-of-the-line suddenly become standard—like snow tires that grab ice without studs, for instance, or run-flat tires that keep going when pressure is lost. But what about old-fashioned, technologically…
For decades, most tires displayed a tread that was symmetrical across the tire: Both the inner and outer halves of the tread were identical or mirror images. Now, increasingly, tires have asymmetrical tread designs: The inner and outer halves of…