Our mission is to boost safety on our roads by carefully monitoring the air pressure inside consumer car tires. In fact, many governments have been putting emphasis on the importance of having the correct tire pressure. For one, the government of the United States has passed the "Tread Act" which, among other things, recommends that all new vehicles be fitted with a tire pressure monitoring system. Our system would push the idea even further by automatically adjusting the tire pressure according to environmental conditions. Did you know that :
- No tire is perfectly sealed and you can loose 2 Psi per month.
- A temperature drop of only 5°C causes a pressure drop of 1 Psi in your tires.
- When carrying a heavy load, you must increase your tire pressure.
- Decreasing the tire pressure boosts traction on snow, sand and in mud.
- The most common cause for a tire blowout is under-inflation.
Consider that an adequate adjustment of the pressure inside car tires not only considerably increases safety, it also increases fuel economy and tire life.
For more information on the topic, we recommend a visit to the "Be Tire Smart" web site ( http://www.betiresmart.ca/).