Comments by "Jack Voss" (@jackvoss5841) on "Has Michelin Created The Best All Season Tire? Rain, Sun, or Snow!" video.

  1. The “directional tread” - similar to tires on a farm tractor - are meant to rotate in one direction if they are a driver wheel (they are powered, and pushing against the road surface, thus producing motion), and meant to rotate in the opposite direction if they are a driven wheel (are not powered, but rotate because of contact with the road surface pushing against them). This would mean that on a vehicle with, say, a front wheel drive, tread on rear wheels (unpowered driven wheels) should point in the opposite direction of the front wheels. When rotating tires to even out tread wear, an “X” pattern would be used (left rear switch with right front, right rear switch with left front). Historically, if radial tires were reversed, they would develop internal waves and lumps that bumped and thumped while driving. My question here is, do these tires still have that characteristic, and have to continue to rotate in the original direction throughout their lifetime? Or, can the be reversed without the annoying bumpity bump phenomenon? Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
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