Tyres may not appear to know much about the car at first but dig a little deeper. The tyres will have a speed rating and contact area that is designed to match the power of the engine, a pressure setting and characteristics that interact with the suspension setup, a compound that will provide reasonable ballance between grip and wear in that application. Although all these are hard coded into the tyres on your car/bike/tractor/aircraft the knowlege had better be there somewhere

I guess we could better have a tyre factory ;) that interacts with car/plane/bike/suppermarket trolley to churn out the tyre that does the job and a car that provides its characteristics to the tyre factory (or even a car factory that....)

Cheers,
R.