Hyundai unveils car tires with built-in, push-button snow chains::undefined
Anyone want to bet on this ever shipping?
This smells like something that will only ever exist as a patent for a concept.
too many delicate, moving, parts at the point, where a several thousand pound object connects to the ground, while creating great force on the tires.
Kind of reminds me of the old monster truck toy with claws that extended from the tires.
Still never buying a Hyundai or Kia ever again.
Right?
The car could transform into Voltron for all I care.
How they treated people in the past few years, ignoring their shitty security practices and gaslighting customers for getting their car stolen for their bad engineering until the fucking government had to step in? What a joke.
Wanna go into a big more detail?
You can steal a Kia with a USB!
Some were getting stolen with a pen!
Mine and my roommate’s Hyundais were stolen. His was stolen by a child. We know this because the high schooler that stole my roommate’s car kept parking it randomly around the neighborhood because he obviously couldn’t bring it home to his parents and parked the car directly in front of our house (he stole it from a train stop so didn’t know). We caught the kid when he came back for it. The kid was 16.
Mine was stolen and then used in 3+ more hijackings involving a gun according to the FBI agent assigned to my case.
Easy to still them I think.
Only in the US and only extremely cheap versions of models. Other countries have mandatory immobilizer.
Gonna be hella expensive changing them if you get a flat
https://youtu.be/aEMT7D7O-ts?si=MyumL8L9C9Mmxv3w
I think this sort of system is better and cheaper. Also has been around for a long time. Now you know what those hanging chains are used for on buses and fire trucks near the wheels
Maybe for large commercial vehicles, but I don’t want my little sedan rattling around like Jacob Marley after the roads have been cleared.
Hyundai looks like they are innovating these days. This is pretty cool and they have that CV drive shaft replacement tech they are pushing as well. Maybe they are just better at getting the word out but it looks like they are making more progress currently than other makers
Yawn. Still won’t make me by one.
