Lessons From the Roadside Classroom
“The smell of friction material in the air was rather thick.”
In the march of automotive technology that includes the likes of electronic fuel injection, in-dash navigation, and the Fiat 500 perfume diffuser, there are sometimes unsung advancements we don’t ever see and rarely think about. Tires immediately come to mind.
The sidewalls are skinnier than ever, and they’re still black and round and make lots of smoke when properly abused, but the engineers in
