Hyundai unveils car tires with built-in, push-button snow chains::undefined
So literally this:
Hyundai unveils car tires with built-in, push-button snow chains
Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://newatlas.com/automotive/hyundai-snow-chains/
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Pxtl@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Growing up in the 80s was amazing.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yup. I had that one. It was awesome. Only disappointment was that it wasn’t RC.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
An 80s reference about self-deploying tire chains, and it somehow isn’t Speed Racer? Amazing
NewPerspective@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still never buying a Hyundai or Kia ever again.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right?
The car could transform into Voltron for all I care.
How they treated people in the past few years, ignoring their shitty security practices and gaslighting customers for getting their car stolen for their bad engineering until the fucking government had to step in? What a joke.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wanna go into a big more detail?
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can steal a Kia with a USB!
NewPerspective@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mine and my roommate’s Hyundais were stolen. His was stolen by a child. We know this because the high schooler that stole my roommate’s car kept parking it randomly around the neighborhood because he obviously couldn’t bring it home to his parents and parked the car directly in front of our house (he stole it from a train stop so didn’t know). We caught the kid when he came back for it. The kid was 16.
Mine was stolen and then used in 3+ more hijackings involving a gun.
Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gonna be hella expensive changing them if you get a flat
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m just waiting form the Michelin Uptis to hit the market
ATDA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Kind of reminds me of the old monster truck toy with claws that extended from the tires.
infinite_zero@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Nothing can stop… THE ANIMAL!
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 11 months ago
youtu.be/aEMT7D7O-ts?si=MyumL8L9C9Mmxv3w
I think this sort of system is better and cheaper. Also has been around for a long time. Now you know what those hanging chains are used for on buses and fire trucks near the wheels
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe for large commercial vehicles, but I don’t want my little sedan rattling around like Jacob Marley after the roads have been cleared.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yea, if you frequently need chains, but not all the time (say for ice), there’s the spider style. It uses a hub that bolts onto your lugnuts, and the gripper is like a hubcap that latches into the hub putting plastic fingers with studs over the tires.
Then there’s the mash material type - the tire sock. Postal service delivery vehicles use them in town. They don’t damage the road. Pretty easy to put on, easy to stow.
assembly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hyundai looks like they are innovating these days. This is pretty cool and they have that CV drive shaft replacement tech they are pushing as well. Maybe they are just better at getting the word out but it looks like they are making more progress currently than other makers
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you’re talking about the portal hub posted recently, that’s tech going back to WWI, and still requires either CV or universal joints (depending on the speed of the shaft). Putting gears in the hub just adds weight. They work fine for off-road vehicles that move slowly, it provides additional clearance. It also offers the opportunity to reduce rotational speeds of the drive shafts (typically by ~66%), enabling the use of u-joints instead of CV joints (which are always required because of suspension travel).
Hyundai costs less than others for a reason.
assembly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah that was the post I was talking about. Their big claim was that the combination of an electric motor close to the hub and the in-hub gears is the key to it all. To your point though, I won’t purchase the first few years of cars that have that as I am sure there will be initial issues that they need to work out. I’m just excited that there are some new approaches being pushed. I got super excited 20 years ago for rotary engines from Mazda and that never took off the way I thought it would. I figured those would be the basis for electric hybrids so what do I know.
dog_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yawn. Still won’t make me by one.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Anyone want to bet on this ever shipping?
This smells like something that will only ever exist as a patent for a concept.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 11 months ago
too many delicate, moving, parts at the point, where a several thousand pound object connects to the ground, while creating great force on the tires.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Right?
“Hey, I got an idea, let’s add some moving parts to the most disposable part of the car.”