By Jan Martine
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ:GT) has been working on an innovative new tire technology for almost six years now. The product should come to the market early next year. The technology is called Air Maintenance Technology or AMT. The technology was named one of 2012’s best inventions by Time Magazine. The idea is a tire that can pump itself by rotating to maintain tire pressure at a constant level. The AMT tire utilizes a peristaltic pump technology. Basically there is a small pipe molded in the side wall of the tire, and as the tire rotates the pipe is squeezed at the bottom and that pushes the air in the pipe into the tire.
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