One of a series of occasional posts containing interviews with people from local businesses concerning their area of expertise:
Ray Tower has known Tires for longer than I’ve been alive. He talks about the incredible advances in tire technology in his lifetime and some of the big mistakes that people make where the rubber meets the road:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v34PP8aqCKI
You can find him at Viola’s Fitchburg Tire. Stop by and tell him DaTechGuy sent you.



Peter-
I like your interviews of folks, but the background noise is VERY distracting; is there some small bit of technology (e.g. clip on mic) that you could use with your video camera?
Isolating the speaker’s voice would make the presentation much more watchable.
My $.02…
That’s a good point. I will need to see what I can do about that.
Candidate Obama says the same thing in 2007-2008 during the presidential campaign when gas prices were over $5/gallon and he is criticized for it. But get a tire expert to say the exact same thing and lets all run out and check our tire pressure and rotate those tires to increase fuel efficiency.