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View the operating principle of the design, as installed both on a demonstation model and a real tyre. Note how the coloured liquid disappears as the tyre moves over it. The film with the tyre actually shows how the surface lifts up as the tyre leaves the contact area

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Intelligent tyres

A new technology is proposed for the creation of intellectual tyres with possible control over the features of adhesion to the road surface, dependent upon parameters of the road surface, weather conditions and parameters of the vehicle so equipped.

We have investigated how to take the development of tyres to a new level, where intellectual tyres can not only relay information, but also react to this information. This technology has significant benefits, yet all the following can be achieved without increasing production costs for traditional tyres:

- the partial or even complete eradication of the need for expensive tyre treads that considerably limit performance attributes

- considerable increase in service life

- reliable contact with the road surface in any conditions, including heavy rain, by way of a drying effect

- reliable contact with the road surface on new asphalt, or on a road covered with oil, dust, ice or snow

- tyre traction control dependent upon the parameters of the road surface (as provided by intellectual tyre sensors) and the motion regime of the vehicle

- a reduction in the volume of spray and dust emission from the tyre surface by optimal selection of the moment for self-cleaning of the controlled vortex flow elements (for example, this can be effected when the element in question is under the wheel arch)

- noise reduction during vehicle motion as a consequence of the partial or complete exclusion of the tyre tread

- improved ecological features, through the partial or complete exclusion of the tyre tread, as the road surface will deteriorate less intensively and, in the case of unsurfaced roads, the upper layer of earth will be subjected to considerably less erosion

- enhanced safety for the driver and passengers in extreme conditions (such as sudden braking, even on a combination of surfaces, sudden manoeuvres, vehicle correction after a collision and so on), as it is possible to automatically vary the force of traction in each wheel individually

- improved braking capability during sideways skidding,

- improved manoeuvrability in adverse road conditions.

Retaining existing production costs yet dramatically improving operating attributes of a tyre means that in evaluating the market for our technology we can look not just at the market segment for intellectual tyres, but at the entire marketplace that cater on a mass scale.