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Show Tire Of The Future Traveling far into the future fu-ture is this "Tire of 2001" which has a raised center rib , extending above two other rows that flank each side. At highway speeds, the vehicle ve-hicle would travel only on the center rib, dramatically dramati-cally reducing rolling resistance, re-sistance, and improving fuel economy. When braking or cornering, corner-ing, ' the center rib in this futuristic tire, designed by Uniroyal, a leading American Ameri-can tire maker, would become be-come flush with the outside rows, either mechanically or pneumatically, providing more traction by putting more rubber on the road. This ingenious prototype offers an imaginative glimpse of things to come for drivers driv-ers down the road in the f,,t,. |