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Old 09-02-2009, 12:03 AM   #3 (permalink)
Concrete
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I got a question - or two

Since tire design appears to be a trade between traction, wear and rolling resistance
why is the customer only given two of the critical components to chose tires?
Would Bridgestone have any plans to list rolling resistance?
I personally could find myself loyal to a manufacture that supplied all the data, instead of having to dig thru incomplete third party data & trying to guess what tire is lower RR.

Also
Does Bridgestone have plans for any higher pressures passenger tires?
once again I would be interested in becoming a customer of such a company.

Besides a look around your local store parking lot will show many tires designed to be in the 32-35 psi range - are living a life of dangerous under-inflation.
there is not much room when you are in the low thirties before you are building up heat in a tire and getting a blow out, or wallowing the bead off the rim. I seems like the tire makers would be pushing another 5 or 10 more psi for for safety - as well as being eco-friendly & saving gas.

best wishes on the interview

edit:
crap!
well I guess this is tomorrow

So how did the interview go?
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Last edited by Concrete; 09-02-2009 at 12:04 AM.. Reason: space time malfunction
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