An Odisha Scientist Just Won A NASA Award For A Ground-Breaking Technology That Prevents Flat Tyres!

If you have ever driven a
car, or sat in one (or just used it as an excuse for being late) - a
flat tyre is one of god's cruelest jokes. It's worse than a fender
bender, always happens when you are in a hurry and already late on a day
when it's either too hot or too rainy.

But now a team headed by Sameer Panda form Odisha
have come up with a unique technology to prevent tyre burst and the
accidents they can cause.

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The PhD student’s innovation which was presented at the NASA Tech
Brief in New York bagged an award in the Create the Future Design
Contest- 2015. It was also recognized as one of the top ten entries in
the contest jointly organized by  by NASA and Society of Automobile
Engineers International

The technology named as ‘Mild Run Flat Tyre’ is a
multi-chambered tubeless tire with sealant inside the chamber to take
care of puncture in tread and sidewall. The innovators say their product
has improved on the traditional drawback of tyres like leakage,
deterioration of sealant due to interaction with air, problem in wheel
balancing, rubber hardening, clogging near the valve etc.

It is estimated that if this technology is used in
10 million vehicles, carbon emission due to tyre replacement can be
reduced up to 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide. Some 3,371 deaths and
9,081 injuries were reported in India in 2014 due to tyre burst related
incidents. Globally, 1.25 million injuries and casualties are estimated
to occur due to tyre bursts.