Tire failures. Tire failures often boil down to human factors of neglect or ill-considered decision making. (Photo: Shutterstock)

With all the attention on state-of-the-art vehicle technologies, it is easy to ignore the tires that make that programmed motion possible. And that could be a fatal mistake. Even if the algorithms are working optimally at the wheel of a driverless car, a catastrophic tire failure is a rogue event that can bring that road trip to a crashing halt.

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