Ban used tires

That would be the most idiotic law ever created, another ridiculous and unnecessary law that could never be policed. Another stupid law to make criminals out of folks just trying to survive. "Used Tire" does not always mean something five years old and worn down to the nub, a used tire can also be a month old with a couple thousand miles on it.

If you can't buy a good used tire, and you can't afford to buy a new tire, do you know what happens? You continue to drive on your old worn tires until they will no longer hold air. My bet is a law like that would create even more bad tires on the road, not less.

Think about all the accidents each day where cars with good tires are totaled out, damaged beyond repair. Or vehicles with many good parts like tires that develop expensive mechanical problems where fixing the vehicle is not practical. Four tires per car that's likely tens of thousands of tires every day. You can't sell all these good used tires, even though they might be just like new. That means they would get ground up to make asphalt, buried in a landfill or burned for fuel. Sounds like a massive waste of usable resources to me.

I think it's a solution looking for a problem. About the only used tires out there come off wrecked cars and people taking their factory tires off and replacing them with low profile.

As for old tires being unsafe, I think most people would be shocked at how few accidents are caused by flat tires.

Everyone remember the Firestone tire debacle with Ford Explore's?

Cliff note version....Ford went to Firestone and asked them to increase the tread life of their tires....so the reformulated the rubber so instead of wearing out in 40K miles, you got 80-90K miles.

If you assume someone drives 15K miles a year, one would get about 3 years of use on the older tires....and about 6-7 on the new formulation.

But then we add in the issue of people running lower pressure to give a softer ride....this means higher tire temps....which eventually causes tread separation.

Of the roll overs associated with the tires, almost all of them were in the south during summer time. And all the tires were under inflated. And 85% of the drivers involved were female.

Ford was able to show the tire failure alone did not cause the roll over. It was over reaction of the driver. Any deaths from the roll over were a result of the person not wearing a seat belt.