All tires are round, right? Yes, but only when viewed from the side. From straight ahead or above they're kind of rectangular, which is why they only roll in two directions. How limiting! Wouldn't ...

(CNN) — Goodyear thinks that if we’re going to reinvent the car, we might as well reinvent the tires too. The tire maker has revealed a new concept: spherical rubber tires that can move in any ...

At last year's Geneva Motor Show, Goodyear unveiled a spherical tire concept known as the Eagle 360. Linked to the car using a magnetic levitation suspension system (theoretically, at least), a set of ...

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Goodyear has taken the wraps off two new concept tires designed specifically for autonomous vehicles. The most interesting of the two is the Eagle-360, a spherical concept tire that can move in any ...

As autonomous cars move closer to the showroom, it's clear that they'll be more than just conventional vehicles minus the driver. It means rethinking every major system down to the tires. At the 86th ...

Goodyear has been in the tire game for 117 years, and now it's looking to turn it on its head with spherical tires. Eagle-360 tires, as they're known, are only a concept, but the company says they ...

When Goodyear debuted its Eagle-360 spherical tire concept on March 1, imaginations understandably went wild. Goodyear’s press release promised a future where autonomous cars magnetically levitate ...

Goodyear wants to reinvent the tire with a couple of concepts that look nothing like the ones that are around for more than a century. Shown at the Geneva Motor Show, they are meant to “reshape the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Goodyear thinks that ...