Why Airplanes don’t rotate wheels before landing to reduce the effect of friction?

Question

I used to watch a lot of airplane landings and take-off. My favourite moment is when airplane tyres touch the ground. Friction produces a lot of heat and hence, smoke.
But i wonder, why not pilot start rotating wheels before landing and match the speed of wheels such that it doesn’t cause any friction.

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Answer 1

The wheels have to stop eventually…. and there’s going to be a crapload of friction regardless of if they’re already spinning or not.

Here’s a video of airplane brakes being tested:

There’s a loooooooooot of engineering that goes into airplane landing gear….. like there are people that wrote entire PhD dissertations on the subject…..