it used a special type of rubber that would absorb light then illuminate kind of like those glow in the dark stars, the car was fitted with light bulbs inside the wheel arch to keep the tires "charged" with light. the problem was that this rubber was very expensive and it was difficult to constantly send power to the lights inside the arches. there were many problems with the design like the fact that the tires quickly got dirty and you couldn't see the light much, just driving a couple miles would make it no longer glow.
the beautiful thing about the future(or the present I should say) is the technological advances.
get this type of tire, coat it with that one liquid that makes anything slip off so it never gets dirty.
place lights under the arch of th wheel (be it LEDs or anything) and voila we have clean glow in the dark wheels lol
How would you power the lights? Would they just use batteries? And how would you change the batteries without popping the tire? Also @funkmasterrex , they wouldn't be slippery. It's a special coating substance that hardens when it dries, and doesn't allow mud or dirt to stick to it. If they made the treads deep enough, it wouldn't fill them, and the tires would still work.
Tires work on the principal that the rubber wears away, you'd constantly have to spray that stuff and really I don't think there is anything that would keep a tire clean
@ajhedges That method of illumination is incorrect. The rubber is actually translucent and they are lit internally by bulbs in the rim itself, not the arches.
@punchmunchkin Power was transferred via a coupling device called a slipring.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_ring
@punchmunchkin but then wouldn't it be extremely prone to cracking? The whole point of rubber tires is that they are somewhat malleable and can take the pressure. Put anything rigid around that and it's going to freaking crack the moment it's on the wrong road. The best way to do this would be glow in the dark rubber.
in case you're curious on how to power the lights.. cars have car batteries, modify a circuit to create a spot on the fuse box and you're set.
anythings possible !
as far as the costing goes you'd coat the side no the actual tread of the tire
@ajhedges why the fuck would you even want to put lights into the wheel ? that isn't logical in any sense the lights will go in the arc of the wheel. use glow in the dark rubber for the tires. lights are used to brighten them and tada
get this type of tire, coat it with that one liquid that makes anything slip off so it never gets dirty.
place lights under the arch of th wheel (be it LEDs or anything) and voila we have clean glow in the dark wheels lol
@punchmunchkin Power was transferred via a coupling device called a slipring.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_ring
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=27881
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/goodyears-illuminated-tires-promised-a-whole-new-frontier-in-car-fashion.amp.html
anythings possible !
as far as the costing goes you'd coat the side no the actual tread of the tire