Tire-tread patterns can tell you a lot about a car's overall performance. You may be familiar with palmistry, a category of fortune-telling based on interpreting the creases and lines on the inner ...

"Tire Imprint Evidence." He also made paintings, sculptures, stained glass and more. He depicted tread marks, paper dolls, nudes, Hudson landmarks, the Acropolis and other images, sometimes in ...

Of course, we're talking about tire-tread patterns. Be they full of grooves, packed with interlocking blocks, zig-zagged with sipes, or totally slick, you can learn a lot about a vehicle's ...