The tire pressure icon is the newest and least comprehensible icon of them all. I looked at it for years without knowing what it was, and never had any flat tir

The tire pressure icon is the newest and least comprehensible icon of them all. I looked at it for years without knowing what it was, and never had any flat tires, due to wear or pressure related damage. Just nails, debris and scheduled rotation during inspections. When I discovered that there was a new standard of RFID pressure sensor chips embedded in the new tires I bought, suddenly it all clicked. But that's what it took. I needed to shop around and buy a new set of tires, notice that there were some, a little bit more expensive than others, read the feature list, and notice the RFID chips listed in the spec. RFID chips? In my tires? It's more likely than you think! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_syste... Suddenly it all snapped into place. The worthless idiot light tells me nothing, by magically interfacing with systems behind my back, and what's more, every tire on the road is uniquely identifiable, through remote passive electronic sensors. This just quietly appears, on the down low. Low key spyware on essential disposable components that everyone needs, and that everyone will eventually be forced onto. To get rid of them, usually they're in the valve stem, so you could probably just microwave them with a disassembled magnetron, or run a high voltage arc through them with a stun gun. But no one does.