Sandia Labs & Goodyear Tires team up to keep you safe on the road [Video]

The cars we drive and ride in have become an essential part of our lives. Nine out of 10 Americans hop in a car every day. The part that touches the ground has more technology than you have ever thought. In this “Celebrate New Mexico: Made Here,” we head to Sandia Labs, where the company’s overall mission is to develop technologies, modernize and protect the nuclear arsenal and defend against terrorism. They contribute much to our country’s national defense. It turns out, some of that technology for national security aligns perfectly with designing safe tires. “One of the things I learned when I took over this role is that tires are a lot more complicated than you might think,” Dr. Gregory Bunting of Sandia Labs said. Bunting works on a supercomputer at Sandia that does modeling and simulation.”What we found was all these capabilities, the mathematics behind them is very …