Technology is developing 360 degrees and innovation is the need of the hour. Every other company is getting into this arena and if wanting to provide its customers with the best of the best technologies.
Michelin, the leading tyre manufacturing brand is now taking a dive into the development of an inexpensive printer sensor that can monitor tyres in real time and equips the tyres with a warning system that alerts the drivers about the condition of the tyres. It assists the drivers and warns then about the thinning of the tyre rubbers growing dangerously thin and that they need to be changed.
The device will increase the safety and improve the performance of the vehicle thereby reducing the fuel consumption. Researchers at Duke University in the US built the sensor using metallic carbon nanotubes - tiny cylinders of carbon atoms just one-billionth of a meter in diameter - that can track millimeter-scale changes in tread depth with 99 percent accuracy.
"With all of the technology and sensors that are in today's cars, it's kind of crazy to think that there's almost no data being gathered from the only part of the vehicle that is actually touching the road," said Aaron Franklin, associate professor at Duke.
