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Good question, Swanny, but a TPMS will tell you about a slow leak and even a faster leak but a blowout like in my picture is so sudden that no warning can get you stopped in time to avoid the damage. In the case of the blowout shown in that picture, I had checked the tires when we stopped for lunch, about an hour or so back and they were fully inflated.
I do think a lot of what we call blowouts are actually when tires ran flat and the rim cut the tire to pieces. We've had a couple of those. But in this case I heard the very distinct pop, which is why I immediately pulled onto the shoulder, as witnessed by the tire track in the picture. Unfortunately we've heard that pop several times to the point where every time we took off from somewhere I worried whether we'd have yet another tire problem. With more than 15 months on the new tires I no longer worry about it other than to keep an eye on the tires.
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