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Originally Posted by CapriRacer
The problem isn't the test.
Among the problems was the amount of available testing facilities. The tire manufacturers said that if they tested 24/7 - and nothing else - it would take 3 years. Some said they couldn't accomplish the task unless they sacrificed some R&D testing. Some said that by the time they completed the first round of testing, there would be new models to test and they would never catch up.
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I'm ignorant when it comes to the tire industry, but it seems a simple test as I suggest, with a dynamometer measuring power required to spin a certain speed under certain load and temperature conditions; you could pretty quickly get a rough estimate of efficiency.
Or does the problem have more to do with breaking in the tire so that it performs in a consistent way?