Is it really possible that we will in the foreseeable future, on our cars, have some of these, revolutionary tires!? South Korean tire manufacturer, Hankook, is known for its racing program within the some GT championships, and lately, for the better car “tires” for commercial use. The company Hankook Tire recently in collaboration with the University for design, engineering and efficiency from Pforzheim in Germany, participated in the project “Design Innovation”, in order to create a futuristic concept tires.
The result are three interesting solutions: BOOSTRAC tire, capable of changing its appearance and adapts to the ground, ALPIK tire that is able to increase its diameter and thereby also increase the clearance of vehicles in off-road driving, while the third concept is titled HYBLADE, and is specially designed for substrates with large amounts of standing water.
