I heard someone at a local bike shop say that ‘car rims are hookless’, yeah, but you need a machine to put the tires on the rim. I had a friend in college that tried to put tires on rims by himself, and I think he nearly killed himself doing it. (There comes a point where saving money just isn’t worth it)
The bead on car tires are thick and stiff. I would never like to run into that kind of over design in a bike tire. I had enough of a problem being tasked as a noob to mount a tubular tire.
So would I ride a hookless wheel setup? It sounds complicated, potentially fragile, and too dependent on pressure, so I’ll pass. I have a set of carbon wheels, and they are ‘hooked’, and if they can pull it off, WTH can’t more manufacturers. Hookless just seems too risky because bikes can encounter all kinds of terrain, and it’s just not worth it to save the companies that sell (multi) thousand dollar wheel sets a few bucks. Have the prices of hookless rims gone down (any) to offset the possible medical and reputational issues when they fail?