The tire industry has advanced a lot technologically since the pneumatic rubber tire was invented in the late 19th century, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In Season 13 of Shark Tank, which aired in 2021, seasoned entrepreneurs Brian Yennie and Earl Cole looked to revolutionize the tire industry, particularly for bicycles. They promised tires that will ...

An advanced tire technology developed by NASA for use on planetary rovers could be coming to a bike lane near you, with startup the Smart Tire Company leveraging the technology to introduce an airless ...

On Season 13 of "Shark Tank," the SMART Tire Company failed to gain the interest of investors. But the story of what happened ...

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 ...

(CNN) — We tend to think of tires as big circular hunks of black rubber that just roll down the road. We don’t think about them much until something goes wrong and you’re stuck waiting for roadside ...