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Putting Tires to the Test

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Hank Hogan

Eugene Shaw, president of Lake Orion, Mich.-based L-Ray, wants to make sure that when the rubber meets the road, it won't stay there. The company has introduced an optically based tire-testing system that allows manufacturers to detect anomalies. Detecting and removing anomalous tires should boost traffic safety, something consumer groups have been urging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to do via mandated testing. A new technique for testing tires, called differometry, cuts testing time and produces easy-to-understand results (top), compared with the conventional...Read full article

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