If you don't know the correct tire pressure for your vehicle, you can always look it up in a tire pressure chart. Tire manufacturers are listing their recommended tire pressure in those charts.
It can make sense to adjust tire pressure to your own driving characteristics and to experiment a little. The optimal pressure for the tires of a vehicle depends on many factors, among them vehicle load and speed and also the individual driving style. Drivers who are using a pressure chart to find the correct tire pressure are demonstrating that they care for the safety function of their tires.
The tire industry is helping, also with the development of 'intelligent' tires. While tires will never be intelligent – in the sense of the word – they will eventually be able to deliver a multitude of data covering date of manufacturing, materials, distance used and more. This data is stored in a small chip, which is located in the rubber of the tire. Maybe such a chip will in the future also be able to monitor temperature and pressure in the tire. Today it cannot yet do this.
This is why tpm-systems AG has created their intelligent tire pressure monitoring system TireMoni which allows monitoring the current tire pressure while driving. The system is very useful, for it informs the driver about current tire pressure and temperature at all times. The system warns immediately when pressure changes so that the driver has an opportunity to react long before any damage to the tire can happen.
Tires with low pressure start milling, consequently getting hot and finally blowing up. Drivers should do everything to prevent this situation. The driver might lose control over the vehicle and oftentimes such blowouts are causing an accident, too.
Thanks to the evolution of the tire industry, modern tires are so good that tire blowouts should be a thing of the past. If a vehicle tire is maintained and looked after, it will perform safely and do its service as a matter of course.
In almost 95% of those cases where a tire puncture or blowout causes an accident, this happens due to low tire pressure. Who would check his tire pressure at every stop at the petrol station? You don't either? Then you might want to consider retrofitting a TireMoni tire pressure monitoring system, too.