David Zipper June 3, 2025 2025, CityLab The Global Struggle to Build Safer Cars David Zipper June 3, 2025 2025, CityLab Cars around the world are growing safer — but not in the US.
David Zipper April 26, 2025 2025, Fast Company Virginia will use technology to slow chronic speeders’ cars—and other states are rushing to join in David Zipper April 26, 2025 2025, Fast Company This car safety tech has bipartisan appeal
David Zipper February 20, 2025 2025, CityLab Who Should Fix the Sidewalk? David Zipper February 20, 2025 2025, CityLab Denver recently became the first major US city to “nationalize” its sidewalks in order to build them faster.
David Zipper February 11, 2025 2025, Fast Company This Google Maps ‘safety’ feature could actually make roads more dangerous David Zipper February 11, 2025 2025, Fast Company New features in Google Maps make the navigation app dangerously distracting — and users can’t turn them off
David Zipper November 21, 2024 2024, Fast Company Who’s really to blame—and who isn’t—for America’s traffic death epidemic David Zipper November 21, 2024 2024, Fast Company Saying that “road safety is a shared responsibility” is misleading and counterproductive.
David Zipper November 13, 2024 2024, Vox The most dangerous roads in America have one thing in common David Zipper November 13, 2024 2024, Vox In the US, 2/3 of city crash deaths occur on streets control by the state — not local gov. That’s a problem.
David Zipper October 2, 2024 2024, Slate There Is No Technology Fix for Car Bloat David Zipper October 2, 2024 2024, Slate The only surefire way to reduce car bloat's harm: Shrink gigantic vehicles
David Zipper October 1, 2024 2024, Fast Company Big Auto helped kill America’s best chance to curtail reckless speeding. But it’s not over yet David Zipper October 1, 2024 2024, Fast Company California almost became the first state in the country to require technology that deters reckless speeding
David Zipper September 24, 2024 2024, Fast Company Why car companies might finally have to care about pedestrian safety David Zipper September 24, 2024 2024, Fast Company In the name of safety, NHTSA wants to require carmakers to moderate their gigantic designs. Good.
David Zipper September 2, 2024 2024, The Verge What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future David Zipper September 2, 2024 2024, The Verge Even if self-driving cars work perfectly, they're likely to increase emissions and crash deaths
David Zipper August 1, 2024 2024, Fast Company How fast can a car go from 0 to 60? It really doesn’t matter David Zipper August 1, 2024 2024, Fast Company “0-60 mph” is a car metric that needs to die.
David Zipper July 28, 2024 2024, Slate Will the Autobahn Finally Get Speed Limits? David Zipper July 28, 2024 2024, Slate Germany is having second thoughts about blazing-fast autobahn driving
David Zipper June 19, 2024 2024, CityLab Austria to ‘Super-Speeders’: We’re Taking Your Car David Zipper June 19, 2024 2024, CityLab In Austria, reckless speeders can have their car seized and sold by the government
David Zipper June 3, 2024 2024, CityLab A Traffic Engineer Hits Back at His Profession David Zipper June 3, 2024 2024, CityLab I spoke with Wes Marshall, an urban planner and engineering professor, about the reasons US traffic engineers prioritize car speed over road safety.
David Zipper May 21, 2024 2024, Fast Company Texas police used a monster truck to promote seat belts. It shows all that’s wrong with U.S. road safety David Zipper May 21, 2024 2024, Fast Company Only in America could a police department use a monster truck to encourage seat belt use
David Zipper May 13, 2024 2024, Fast Company Detroit killed the sedan. We may all live to regret it David Zipper May 13, 2024 2024, Fast Company Ford, GM, and Stellantis no longer offer any sedan models in the US. That’s a risky move for them — and bad news for Americans.
David Zipper April 28, 2024 2024, Vox The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars David Zipper April 28, 2024 2024, Vox Instead of counteracting car bloat, federal policy has encouraged it
David Zipper March 1, 2024 Vox, 2024 Driving at ridiculous speeds should be physically impossible David Zipper March 1, 2024 Vox, 2024 Tbe movement to adopt Intelligent Speed Assist is growing
David Zipper February 6, 2024 2024, Slate A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. David Zipper February 6, 2024 2024, Slate Huge cars will destroy guardrails, leaving taxpayers to pay for expensive upgrades.
David Zipper February 5, 2024 2024, CityLab Inside California’s Coming Fight Over Vehicle Speed Limiters David Zipper February 5, 2024 2024, CityLab Could California really be the first US state to require speed governors on new cars? State Sen. Scott Wiener thinks so.
