1). Airliner tires are made with several layers of soft rubber interlaced with Kevlar. They are very strong.
2). Airliner tires only need to work about 200 miles or so before they are replaced. Roughly every 200 landings. Truck tires go thousands of miles.
3). They are ablative. That means they are designed to wear in a predictable, controlled way. That’s why runways have all those black stripes down the middle from tires.
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