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Here’s how Michelin plans to make its tires more renewable (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel this is a bit disingenuous. Especially as Michelin are working on airless tires. We all know that tires as we know them have planned obsolescence as a fundamental part of their design. They're already a blight on our environment, the only good thing to do now is to ensure that as few new tires are needed as possible, not for them to be green washed.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Construction sites aren't usually operating at high speed. Trying to bust through the plow line on a winter day and getting the tires packed with snow will have the car doing the humpy-hump down the highway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I make you right, but I'm assuming the conditions you've set out are part of the test suite?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not much of a tire if it can't handle snow or mud at speed.