How tires could be key for autonomous technology

An important piece of the autonomous vehicle revolution could lay in what tires are used — and what’s inside them. Tire manufacturers are looking to be a key part of the puzzle. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, tires could feed real-time information to self-driving vehicles, allowing critical decisions to be made with even more important information. There is not yet a huge demand to see tire technology at the point where it will be essential to the success of autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles, he told the WSJ, are moving forward without advanced data-generating tires, in part because there are already so many other spots on the vehicle that can gather data.