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Should such tires be available to the general public? Many locations rely on tire shredders for perimeter security. These measure will become useless. As will spike strips used by law enforcement. How will police be able to stop fugitive vehicles equipped with puncture-proof tires? Some sort of remotely activated kill-switch will have to be mandated.



Neither consumers nor Consumer products should be primarily concerned with law enforcement convenience.

Car makers expertise at making cars is often pretty bad their expertise with electronics and software security is hilariously bad.

A universal remote kill switch is a very bad idea especially in response to a tire that might be in production for a tiny fraction of cars 5 years from now and with a wildly successful and unlikely uptake could be pervasive in merely decades.

Given motivation I'm sure people can probably figure out a low tech solution that does not involve figuring out how to fit all cars going forward with a backdoor that will almost certainly be exploited.

For example perhaps something could damage or foul the wheel or clamp onto it.




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