Yo, you were there? You saw that?:p

actually I was doing about 25 on a small downhill. Thats why I didn't avoid the hole. Lemme tell ya when theres only 10 microns of spandex 'tween you and the road, you tend to focus on control.

Yeah, not much you can do about it if you hit something. I suspect having two on one side go flat is probably hairier than just one.

If you are pulling under acceleration, then you probably either have mismatched tire sizes, or you have different air pressure in one side than the other.

I had a blowout with that same tire a few years back in my Z3 --at about 60 mph on the highway. Rear passenger side. I heard a noise and pulled over to the breakdown lane. All the rubber stripped to the wheel. BFG replaced the tire for free. The car was very stable to Z3s credit. Returned home on one of those small spares going 40 mph. They do work in a pinch.

I'm not sure what caused the blowout, but the night before I went through some highway construction in a slowdown, and went over a bump.
Death, taxes and highway construction....the latter never seems to end these days. The big trucks are killing the asphalt roads.

I've been seeing these systems used on motorcoaches (buses). Thus far, they seem to be holding up for commercial use. The price of these will come down. Frankly, I think they are a great idea. You can have this to cover all four tires for about the price of one new performance tire.

angela

once, I got front tire on a bike blown at around 50. My stomach clean the road surface well. An old van was braking on time, front tire was couple feet away from my face. I couldn't walk straight for week or two. Not fun.

I'm probably in the minority with this opinion but here it is:
I think tire pressure monitoring systems are fine, but they give people an excuse for neglecting the basic maintenance associated with owning and operating a vehicle. Whatever happened to performing checks on the vehicle to make sure everything is as it should be? If you are on the highway and have a sudden loss of air pressure (blowout) in a tire, can you really react as fast as the system registers the loss and you are performing evasive manuevers to get the car safely to the side of the road? I'm sure the system works great, but it just isn't for me. Like I said it's my opinion and I'm probably the only one with it.

THAT, is one reason I sold my motorcycle... that and other people drive like idiots.

RE: 3
I had a friend who was a passenger in a Mustang convertible roll over and he had to wear a halo for a while because of (I presume) a skull fracture but AFAIK he is otherwise okay... also AFAIK the driver walked away from the accident.

I've had one, and man was it ever loud. The left rear exploded on my S10 Blazer. I was 17 years old at the time, driving on IH 35 between Austin and Dallas, in a fair amount of traffic, going 65-70 mph, while it was raining. Thank the lawd it didn't get squirly, I had a barrier on my left and cars/trucks on the right. The only thing I could do was let off the gas, signal and get over when I could. I didn't even think about hitting the brake until I was on the shoulder. I slapped the spare on and headed to the nearest gas station to put some air in it. Pretty uneventful, except for the hot chicks that stopped in the Stealth.