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Would these work on Mars rovers too?


Mars rovers already use tires like these.


Or how about bicycles?


Spring tyres were used on bicycles in World War One

https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/ww1-german-bicycles/


Superwheels, discussed here (but tyres remain conventional):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25158215


Tweels are probably too heavy to be viable on bicycles.



> The companies will advance feasibility studies seeking to make this new tire available in market by 2019.

Given that I haven't seen tweels for bicycles yet, I assume the feasibility studies did not go well.

It also looks like they also announced that bicycle tweels were 'coming soon' nearly two years ago: https://jalopnik.com/bridgestone-says-airless-tires-are-comi...




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