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That's not quite the end of the road, though: The tires themselves often have RFID tags embedded.

https://rfid.michelin.com/what-is-rfid/



much harder to read rfid at a distance


It is.

My read through this document suggests that the maximum usable range may be as far as 5 meters, or as little as 1 meter: https://rfid.michelin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/dataShe...

That's not as far as BLE or TPMS can work at, but it's not exactly like the NFC arrangement in a credit card, either. 5 meters is enough for a motivated attacker to do some undetected bulk data collection.




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