Reader's Choice: Top technologies of the Year

Readers have selected the ten most interesting stories in SAE Off-Highway Engineering during the past year. Results are based on the reader-response choices following feature articles and shorter technology items.

Goodyear has introduced an intelligent tire system to help control tire costs and lower downtime due to tire issues in mining operations. The company originally introduced the development during MINExpo 2000, which featured a live data feed of the system in use at the Fording River mine in Elkford, BC, Canada.

Goodyear equipped a 218-t (240-ton) truck with the intelligent tire system on 40.00R57 tires. Each of the truck's six tires was fitted with an intelligent transponder to record tire temperature and pressure. The data was logged through a mine-management system from Modular Mining Systems at the mine and downloaded via software at Goodyear's MINExpo exhibit, where it was displayed graphically.