{"id":89897,"date":"2019-04-24T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/prototype-tire-repairs-itself-instantly-when-a-puncture-occurs"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:03:11","slug":"prototype-tire-repairs-itself-instantly-when-a-puncture-occurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/prototype-tire-repairs-itself-instantly-when-a-puncture-occurs","title":{"rendered":"Prototype tire repairs itself instantly when a puncture occurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prototype-tire-repairs-itself-instantly-when-a-puncture-occurs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I\u2019m sure many of you have experienced that sinking feeling when you\u2019re running out to your car to drive to work only to discover a flat tire. The cause: usually a nail your drove over the night before. It\u2019s 2015, tires shouldn\u2019t suffer punctures anymore, right? Well, they may not for much longer if this prototype tire from Japan makes it to mass production.<\/p>\n<p>The tire is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srigroup.co.jp\/english\/news\/2015\/2015_129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coreseal<\/a> and it has been developed by Japanese company Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. It looks like any other tire fitted on vehicles today, but it has one big advantage. If you drive over a nail and cause a puncture, the tire won\u2019t deflate. In fact, it will repair itself and you\u2019ll likely never know it happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sumitomo_tire_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prototype-tire-repairs-itself-instantly-when-a-puncture-occurs3.jpg\" alt=\"sumitomo_tire_03\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/prototype-tire-repairs-itself-instantly-when-a-puncture-occurs-1638669\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 I\u2019m sure many of you have experienced that sinking feeling when you\u2019re running out to your car to drive to work only to discover a flat tire. The cause: usually a nail your drove over the night before. It\u2019s 2015, tires shouldn\u2019t suffer punctures anymore, right? Well, they may not for much longer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}