Eagle 360 Vehicles I will be discussing the Pros and Cons, mostly Pros of this vehicle, and will talk about how it functions, meaning how it runs, communicates with the road, and surrounding cars, and weather patterns, and the capabilities that the tires have with this new technology
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The Eagle 360 is a new concept car that has been developed by Goodyear tires. What's interesting is that the vehicle is built around the tire, and not the other way around, these tires are not the traditional tires that we see every day. These new tires Have 360 Degrees of tread, and do not have an axle, or suspension, or even brake pads or discs or drums, so the tire is not connected to the vehicle by any mechanical means, like traditional vehicles, everything is elevated and powered by electromagnetic motors, including the suspension. Goodyear claims that this technology will save lives and may bring about zero fatalities, which I believe is the ultimate goal behind this development. I believe that this new development will have a lot of bugs that Goodyear will have to work out, but in the end, it may come out to be a very reliable source and may ultimately change the course of motorized vehicles for the greater good.
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The benefits that I see with this car outnumber the Cons by a big majority, but I will touch on these things. Goodyear states in their article that these self-driven cars will save lives and make driving safer, and the way that this will happen is with the sensors that are in the tires and in the vehicles body, they claim that these tires are capable of learning from past experiences like the human brain does, and seems a little weird if you think about it, but if a storm were to come and rain over the freeway causing slippery roads, the vehicle can sense the weather change and adjust the speed of the vehicle to drive at a more reasonable speed. But let's say that the car starts to slide, it can adjust the speed even more and quicker, because its lighter and powered by magnets, which can have enormous amounts of potential especially when powered by electric motors. The vehicle will learn from this experience and so next time it rains, and sense water on the road it will adjust accordingly. These tires also have the ability to pick up situations from other cars around it. So long story short, these tires communicate with the same concept tires from other vehicles, so after you get done slipping on water, and continue on your way, the tires will communicate to other vehicles and they will adjust accordingly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSFYwDDVgac With increased communication without having to get on a cell phone to call for help or to warn others of potential hazards, these cars will already know the problem even before the occupants in the car see what's going on. Help will be a thing of the past, which is kind of weird if you think about it. With the tires being a ball shape, these tires offer more tread, and a wider contact patter on the road, which increases the traction that these tires get. When a certain amount of tread is worn around the tire, it will rotate the tire to start a new line of wear, this increases the life of the tire, as well as offering a new and improved traction on the road, as your driving down it. The tread on the tires have the ability to change the shape and texture, meaning adjusting between hard or soft tread depending on certain circumstances, like weather, or driving on pavement or dirt roads. The tire has a membrane type substance, so that when the tire gets cut it can heal itself, the idea behind this was they wanted the tire to mimic human skin, and to bring about a tire that would not be completely worthless if it had a cut in it like modern day tires, you will actually be able to continue drive down the road if the tire gets a cut in it. The sensors detect the cut, then the tires will rotate so the cut is not contacting the pavement but will rotate to the side of the tire and start the repairing process.
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The Cons with the Eagle 360, is that it does have to be programmed, every sensor has one role, and learning how to make these sensors communicate to each other without interfering with the individual role that each of these sensors have, will be trial and error. I believe that when these vehicles first come to the market there will be a lot of issues, with these cars doing things that they were not programmed to do. if you think about it, with all the situations that a person can experience throughout a life time, still doesn't experience every situation that the world has to offer. To think that a pedestrians will always be safe is not something that the car manufacturers can truthfully offer or guarantee. where as a human in control could learn from situations, and analyse different situations, as sensors can only sense and cant think ahead. self driving cars will be in our future but if they last or not is up to the out come and how many people are willing to risk getting into one, relying completely on sensors to keep the passengers safe. the Eagle 360 has been considered the best invention according to times magazine back in 2016, it makes its way to the top, because of the capabilities that it will expose to the modern world, the link to the road, which is what the tires on every vehicle is used for, with a wider contact patter the tire adds more grip to the road, making maneuverability safer for the passengers in the car. We. Some down falls with this vehicle, and not necessarily the tire, would be the fact that the car runs on sensors, and in modern day cars sensors fail all the time, I would not deem it wise for a car company to manufacture cars that drive completely off sensors, there has to be some type of human control in the vehicle, I don’t really see the advancement in technology if we take the human factor out of the solution, if brakes can fail in a manned auto mobile, and fail in a self-driving automobile, then we need to ask ourselves is this really something that we need to change the entire nation, or make some huge industrial change, just to have the same out comes happen. The eagle 360 tire made by Goodyear has a lot of pros to its invention, like the grip pattern of the tire to the road, if we could implement the same tire on modern vehicles maybe with newer systems to handle the new tire, modern day vehicles could be even more safer then self-driving vehicles, the Eagle 360 tire has so many different implications that we can use if for, and the tire I believe that if we did put this on today's cars, or new ones coming out in 2019, then driving would be so much safer. An article that I read said that electric cars are starting to become long range, and if this is true, makes me think that if they did achieve this, then what will we us to haul a huge load in the future, will we have to rely on someone else bringing our house hold items when we move? What will it be like, if a national crisis happened what will happen if this system we relied on failed, how would we as people get around, or move to a safe space? Or if we go to war and our enemies take out a power plant, that would put a whole lot of people out of functioning. They also claim 4 rules that would need to take place for everyone moving to electric vehicles, the price of electricity will go up, companies must be willing to function with lower profit margins, batteries need to be cheaper, and this makes us rely on our government more as far as giving out incentives for lowering the cost of these electric vehicles, it's harder than it sounds to be able to allow all these things to happen, considering that if we need batteries to power our vehicles now, and need them more than ever if we went all electric, seems a bit too much for me, cause who's to say that batteries can't raise in price, especially if something bad were to happen, like global war fare, or natural disasters, causing our powerplants to shut down. Tesla has continued in my mind to come out with newer vehicles that are really cool, making them completely electric is just another way of showing how far tesla has come, it's awesome to see the changes that cars are making and moving towards today, but the biggest problem is how is the energy going to be created, tesla made an announcement that was big but yet still does not solve the question, they will be installing quick charge systems in urban areas, so when at the grocery story you can charge it while shopping which makes it more convenient for the driver, and that’s assuming they have enough charging stations for all the electric cars that go shopping at that specific store. Gas however is less stable than electricity, if there is a political problem with a certain refinery company, or an oil ship sinks into the ocean, dumping millions of gallons of oil into the water, the gas prices go up, but with electricity its more stable, less spikes when something happens, available almost anywhere, and most importantly as long as you have 30 kwh you can travel within a hundred mile radius, and for most people that’s enough to see family or do whatever it is they are trying to do. As far as these new tires from Goodyear that help keep people safer on the roads, and functioning fully on electricity, like Teslas cars, most of the problems we will face will not happen until its happened and we will need to figure out a solution fast. But for right now if safety is what we are concerned about, then improvements to the automobile age need to happen, there is room for improvement in everything we do, and Goodyear's tire, the Eagle 360 is a start. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-ev-oil-crisis/
The Eagle 360 is a new concept car that has been developed by Goodyear tires. What's interesting is that the vehicle is built around the tire, and not the other way around, these tires are not the traditional tires that we see every day. These new tires Have 360 Degrees of tread, and do not have an axle, or suspension, or even brake pads or discs or drums, so the tire is not connected to the vehicle by any mechanical means, like traditional vehicles, everything is elevated and powered by electromagnetic motors, including the suspension. Goodyear claims that this technology will save lives and may bring about zero fatalities, which I believe is the ultimate goal behind this development. I believe that this new development will have a lot of bugs that Goodyear will have to work out, but in the end, it may come out to be a very reliable source and may ultimately change the course of motorized vehicles for the greater good.
The benefits that I see with this car outnumber the Cons by a big majority, but I will touch on these things. Goodyear states in their article that these self-driven cars will save lives and make driving safer, and the way that this will happen is with the sensors that are in the tires and in the vehicles body, they claim that these tires are capable of learning from past experiences like the human brain does, and seems a little weird if you think about it, but if a storm were to come and rain over the freeway causing slippery roads, the vehicle can sense the weather change and adjust the speed of the vehicle to drive at a more reasonable speed. But let's say that the car starts to slide, it can adjust the speed even more and quicker, because its lighter and powered by magnets, which can have enormous amounts of potential especially when powered by electric motors. The vehicle will learn from this experience and so next time it rains, and sense water on the road it will adjust accordingly. These tires also have the ability to pick up situations from other cars around it. So long story short, these tires communicate with the same concept tires from other vehicles, so after you get done slipping on water, and continue on your way, the tires will communicate to other vehicles and they will adjust accordingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSFYwDDVgac
With increased communication without having to get on a cell phone to call for help or to warn others of potential hazards, these cars will already know the problem even before the occupants in the car see what's going on. Help will be a thing of the past, which is kind of weird if you think about it.
With the tires being a ball shape, these tires offer more tread, and a wider contact patter on the road, which increases the traction that these tires get. When a certain amount of tread is worn around the tire, it will rotate the tire to start a new line of wear, this increases the life of the tire, as well as offering a new and improved traction on the road, as your driving down it. The tread on the tires have the ability to change the shape and texture, meaning adjusting between hard or soft tread depending on certain circumstances, like weather, or driving on pavement or dirt roads. The tire has a membrane type substance, so that when the tire gets cut it can heal itself, the idea behind this was they wanted the tire to mimic human skin, and to bring about a tire that would not be completely worthless if it had a cut in it like modern day tires, you will actually be able to continue drive down the road if the tire gets a cut in it. The sensors detect the cut, then the tires will rotate so the cut is not contacting the pavement but will rotate to the side of the tire and start the repairing process.
The Cons with the Eagle 360, is that it does have to be programmed, every sensor has one role, and learning how to make these sensors communicate to each other without interfering with the individual role that each of these sensors have, will be trial and error. I believe that when these vehicles first come to the market there will be a lot of issues, with these cars doing things that they were not programmed to do. if you think about it, with all the situations that a person can experience throughout a life time, still doesn't experience every situation that the world has to offer. To think that a pedestrians will always be safe is not something that the car manufacturers can truthfully offer or guarantee. where as a human in control could learn from situations, and analyse different situations, as sensors can only sense and cant think ahead. self driving cars will be in our future but if they last or not is up to the out come and how many people are willing to risk getting into one, relying completely on sensors to keep the passengers safe.
the Eagle 360 has been considered the best invention according to times magazine back in 2016, it makes its way to the top, because of the capabilities that it will expose to the modern world, the link to the road, which is what the tires on every vehicle is used for, with a wider contact patter the tire adds more grip to the road, making maneuverability safer for the passengers in the car. We.
Some down falls with this vehicle, and not necessarily the tire, would be the fact that the car runs on sensors, and in modern day cars sensors fail all the time, I would not deem it wise for a car company to manufacture cars that drive completely off sensors, there has to be some type of human control in the vehicle, I don’t really see the advancement in technology if we take the human factor out of the solution, if brakes can fail in a manned auto mobile, and fail in a self-driving automobile, then we need to ask ourselves is this really something that we need to change the entire nation, or make some huge industrial change, just to have the same out comes happen. The eagle 360 tire made by Goodyear has a lot of pros to its invention, like the grip pattern of the tire to the road, if we could implement the same tire on modern vehicles maybe with newer systems to handle the new tire, modern day vehicles could be even more safer then self-driving vehicles, the Eagle 360 tire has so many different implications that we can use if for, and the tire I believe that if we did put this on today's cars, or new ones coming out in 2019, then driving would be so much safer.
An article that I read said that electric cars are starting to become long range, and if this is true, makes me think that if they did achieve this, then what will we us to haul a huge load in the future, will we have to rely on someone else bringing our house hold items when we move? What will it be like, if a national crisis happened what will happen if this system we relied on failed, how would we as people get around, or move to a safe space? Or if we go to war and our enemies take out a power plant, that would put a whole lot of people out of functioning. They also claim 4 rules that would need to take place for everyone moving to electric vehicles, the price of electricity will go up, companies must be willing to function with lower profit margins, batteries need to be cheaper, and this makes us rely on our government more as far as giving out incentives for lowering the cost of these electric vehicles, it's harder than it sounds to be able to allow all these things to happen, considering that if we need batteries to power our vehicles now, and need them more than ever if we went all electric, seems a bit too much for me, cause who's to say that batteries can't raise in price, especially if something bad were to happen, like global war fare, or natural disasters, causing our powerplants to shut down.
Tesla has continued in my mind to come out with newer vehicles that are really cool, making them completely electric is just another way of showing how far tesla has come, it's awesome to see the changes that cars are making and moving towards today, but the biggest problem is how is the energy going to be created, tesla made an announcement that was big but yet still does not solve the question, they will be installing quick charge systems in urban areas, so when at the grocery story you can charge it while shopping which makes it more convenient for the driver, and that’s assuming they have enough charging stations for all the electric cars that go shopping at that specific store. Gas however is less stable than electricity, if there is a political problem with a certain refinery company, or an oil ship sinks into the ocean, dumping millions of gallons of oil into the water, the gas prices go up, but with electricity its more stable, less spikes when something happens, available almost anywhere, and most importantly as long as you have 30 kwh you can travel within a hundred mile radius, and for most people that’s enough to see family or do whatever it is they are trying to do.
As far as these new tires from Goodyear that help keep people safer on the roads, and functioning fully on electricity, like Teslas cars, most of the problems we will face will not happen until its happened and we will need to figure out a solution fast. But for right now if safety is what we are concerned about, then improvements to the automobile age need to happen, there is room for improvement in everything we do, and Goodyear's tire, the Eagle 360 is a start.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-ev-oil-crisis/
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-just-quietly-solved-the-biggest-problem-to-electr-1803131855
https://pluginamerica.org/how-much-does-it-cost-charge-electric-car/
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/goodyear-eagle-360-urban-tire-concept-has-landed-at-geneva-motor-show/
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/goodyear-unveils-eagle-360-urban-concept-tire-powered-artificial-intelligence-2200934.htm Eagle 360
https://corporate.goodyear.com/en-US/media/news/goodyears-eagle-360-named-one-of-2016s-best-inventions-by-time-magazine.html