The Spherical Tire by Goodyear - Technical Features 

Only the most sophisticated tire experience created by humans! And, it's spherical! *SPHERICAL!*

These tires are just like in the movie I Robot 👍👍. Goodyear Keep up the good work.

...comming into production in 2116 😉

"IT'S SPHERICAL!" -Josh

they should start to push this technology

Amazing!

this is crazy awesome

I got a thought .. y the car wheels couldn't be spherical ?? instead of circular so I searched nd got dis video but i didn't understand how to fix those spherical tyres to car and how to control the angle of rotation nd all Great job u have done it

Excellent 🙌 On Point

If this concept really works, the Tesla's will be the first to sport them.

Perfect

Looks like the Cars in I Robot !

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I suppose breaking happens when the electric motor turns off the magnetic fields, so the tires will break against the car's body. I like it because it's a smoother ride with less bumps and white noise.

If the electric interface with the tyres fail, the chassis will simply drop on the spheres. What happens when you park? Will you require a constant electric charge to maintain a magnetic field between tyre and chassis?

Damn Daniel

nice

Parking with this car will be soo eazy

I'd hope we implement a new road surface by then? Dodging the potholes in New York, I'm always thinking there has to be a better way?

*SPHERICAL!*

It's spherical! *SPHERICAL!*

One day I thought this concept. 😳

It needs more development people, this isn't the finished product. We can't turn down every innovation simply because they haven't fixed all the problems, the advantages would be worth the innovation.

To me this looks like it would be better suited for a single tier motorcycle

They should do this for motorbikes too!

Autonomous cars are basically just private & personalized public transportation.

How does one stop their car on a magnetically levitated car on spherical wheel? Wouldn't you continue moving forward due to momentum?

I wonder how you will go up and down curbs

contact patch is lesser than a normal tire and would you mount that on a car? how would you send power to the sphere?

How to reduce a speed of spherical tire.....?????

how would you steer, apply torque to the wheels, brake, handbrake, stop the car from dropping onto the wheels when the car isn't being used, replace tires without sophisticated equipment, and how could you make the magnets strong enough to keep the wheels in line, steer, and brake at high speeds without being too strong to the point that you'd basically get sucked into other magnetic wheel thingies...I mean it sounds really intriguing but I dont think this'll ever be a reality

This is just PR... the tech to drive this is still 100 years away

how does the body turn? roads aren't at right angles

The question no has asked. How do you change the tire if it gets damaged?

How does it move?

worked on this a decade ago. funny.

Honestly I came up with this tire when I was 14ish, by 16 I found every flaw and work around but seeing someone make it and me being 34 now i will tell the world dont hold your breath on this idea cause we would need to change all roads around the world to make these possible. Simply because we know already what asphalt does to normal tires and how much tread we lose a year, the ball will eventually become "out-of-round" therefore creating a wobble to the tire.... the price tag on repairs would be substantial for that work around, which would be individual plates to replace making up one complete sphere..... the idea is beautiful but it will never work, you would need super hard tires and then change every Road to some kind of material like acrylic then you would need to make that acrylic some kind of rough surface for grip, workarounds for the weather conditions..... there's just so much for just a tire. Oh I figured out the best way to attach to the car as well but even then we are talking pricy repairs for when something breaks.

What will be the price for one tire?

How would you steer it in the direction you want it to go in? there is no control??

BATMOBILE got some serious modification to play with

Have they patented it or is it just a concept. If so is there a link to it?

There is no fucking way those tires are ever going to be used in cars. The sphere is the only fucking three dimensional shape to have only one point in contact with the ground, that would mean to have almost no friction at all. Cars would just slide around in streets with no control at all. GOOD JOB, GOODYEAR!

WOAH

how it rotates 360 drgree

in the immortal words of josh ITS SPHERICAL!

ITS SPHERICAL

A maglev wheel train on a single track that the train is attached to not sitting on top of.

Soccer fans in Europe will be amazed by balls, how it will be), and the streets unfortunately won't be brighter for this Kind of Car(

Desde quando bola faz curva?

My graduation project on 2011

I 3D printed this tire.

And remember folks, it'll corner into that side street, just like your shopping trolley into the next aisle...

But how will the actual car body make turns tho

Where’s the rest of the car

If this did work couldn't you just use one smart, active tire in the center of the vehicle and 4 passive tires around the perimeter?

what about transmission?

One question.......... how it is going to hooked with drive shaft?

I really appreciate that but what about off road conditions? Plus cost factor, implementation and for a 'Car guy' , it doesn't satisfy. Like does the car drift with that tyres on?

Is everyone just going to ignore that this guy's name is Jurgen Titz?

the only real issue i see, is being able to turn. Sure the tire can move in all directions, but in every direction- you'd still be positioned as if you're driving straight. Turning the corner is gonna be hell.

but if u have to use such strong magnetic force, wouldn't it effect our electronics, like phones for example?

BB8 ??

This won't work for at least two reasons. 1. A sphere tire has a very low contact area with the road, therefore less grip on the road. This has a negative effect on the performance of the car, e.g. braking distance. 2. They have to increase the width of cars and also the roads or increase the length of cars, equals longer traffic jams and they need to adjust the length of parking lots. Both would cost too much to be beneficial.

It'll probably be 2050 something when these happen. Or even before 2050

is this still a concept??

while interesting and plausible i doubt the price for the technology will come down enough to make it worth putting in vehicles for the few pro's it has over the rather simple, cheap and effective wheel. i personally think we would likely get hover car's first due hovering providing far more pro's to make it worth putting in vehicles but price could always prove me wrong and so could science.

Lol you had me right up until the part where you STILL don't have a way of connecting it to the car... Lol, magnetic levitation... When it's functional, come and talk to us.

I'm still confused about the way it connects to the car... If it's floating magnetically why not skip the tire all together?

but how would u turn

I love innovation, but I would be remiss if I didn't point out some issues with this tire. One, significantly less grip. Consider the outer edge of a tire, and how of a tire is contact with the road and thus can handle a greater degree of force acted upon it before sliding. consider a sphere and how LITTLE contact it has with the ground. Two, the suspension, while electromagnetic suspension is an intriguing idea, it would have little in in the way of shock absorption, because if its held in place by magnets, if the tire moves out of that alignment of magnets it will come free from the suspension and come in contact with the car. Not only that, but the energy requirements of such electromagnets would be far more than we would be able to fit in a car economically. Finally, the main problem, if the tire doesn't come into contact with the car, how does the car drive the tires forward? How would the car's engine turn them in any direction? The car must come in contact with the tires or it will have no control over how they spin. What would the braking system even look like? Fortunately all these problems have solutions, like having the tires mounted via ball bearings. All new technology is going to have growing pains, but I'm exited for them none the less

I robot

So, this car got balls?

Without explanation on actually materializing the concept, that's NOTHING but just a rubber ball. You're saying a BALL is your technological achievement, Goodyear??

Samjh aya....

Looks like a medicine ball.

What about brakes ?

I believe the spherical tire is not something new. I care more about the transmission system, the efficiency, and the feeling of drivers when turing is substituted by drifting. (may be better with auto-drive)

a bat car comes to mind

So HOW ON EARTH those tires could be attached to a car?

Lemme guess Audi gets the first one I robot predicted it

Gimey

Yeah, 20 years to bet rid of balls in our mice... just to find them on cars, argghhhh ! Oh and "I, robot", nothing new.

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So how do you stop with that thing? How do you do an emergency break? The uncritical reporting on this is obnoxious.

1st of all....its actually two semi spherical tires just put together Secondly, it would be PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to attach to a car

Third!

Куда будет деваться грязь?

Second

first

Goodyear wants to make cars unfun

Never going to happen

something tells me its a bad idea...dont know i must be wrong i guess......

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BS concept for now and impractical....Maybe in 100 years it will be street legal

the only point of this is for racers and police officers. seriously we dont need this -.-

I LIKE THE CREATIVITY BUT NOT AFFORDABLE OR PRACTICAL WITH THE CONTINUING RISE OF HEALTHCARE,FOOD,GAS, AND INCREASINGLY AMOUNT OF MIDDLE-CLASS BECOMING POORER EVERY DAY. MY ANSWER IS NO.

PROS: This is actually possible CONS: The cheapskates in the automotive industry don't want to spend the money to make this possible.