Air pumps on garage/petrol station forecourts could become a thing of the past as new self-inflating tyres which are being developed by Goodyear are causing a stir for the future.
Jean-Claude Kihn, Goodyear’s chief technology officer, said: “A tyre that can maintain its own inflation is something drivers have wanted for years. This will become the kind of technological breakthrough that people will wonder how they lived without.”
Precise details of how the tyre works are still a closely guarded secret and Goodyear says the system is at least two years away from commercial use.
