Goodyear's Illuminated Tires

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Never heard about these tires, have you?

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In the late 1930s, a German chemist named Otto Bayer synthesized a new organic polymer called polyurethane. Over the decades polyurethane found many applications, especially in the automobile industry, where the soft, elastic polymer is used to manufacture high-resilience foam cushion for seats, headrests, armrests, as well as to line roof, dashboards and instrument panels. Bayer went so far as to exhibit an experimental car whose body was made entirely out of polyurethane. But it was legendary tire manufacturer Goodyear that turned heads by inventing a new use for the wonder material—tires, and not just any tire; these tires glowed.
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https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/05/goodyears-illuminated-tires.html
 

I wonder if they specifically used Nitrogen instead of air for the tires?
 

There was the one about the woman, 8 months pregnant who got on the bus & didn't know why passengers were pointing & giggling at her.
She sat under a tire ad that read: "Goodyear rubber could have prevented this accident."
 
fmdog44 said:
I wonder why they never went in to mass production....................
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Testing showed that Neothane tires didn’t perform well in wet weather and melted under heavy braking.

In the end, Goodyear realized that producing Neothane tires commercially would be too expensive.
 

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