Exclusive: Goodyear debuts 'Fitbit' for tires

Are you ready for a new wave of'smart tires?' Goodyear and Tesloop have teamed up to create them! Goodyear is teaming up with car service Tesloop to test a new breed of sensors that monitor a tire's condition. Goodyear is testing a smart-tire that, much like a Fitbit, relays condition information based on cloud computing analytics. The U.S. manufacturer has teamed with California-based car service Tesloop to gauge the efficiency of a tire embedded with a sensor that can monitor metrics such as pressure and temperature. While many vehicles today are equipped with tire pressure monitoring systems that tell you how low on air your tire might be, this system represents a step toward a more sophisticated approach that will be critical once fleets of self-driving cars hit the roads.