David Zipper January 10, 2023 Slate, 2023 Elon Musk Went From Being Like Henry Ford in a Good Way to a Bad Way David Zipper January 10, 2023 Slate, 2023 The rhyming history of bigoted, self-destructive car tycoons
David Zipper January 4, 2023 2023, The Atlantic Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us David Zipper January 4, 2023 2023, The Atlantic Electric cars don’t need to be overpowered behemoths
David Zipper December 20, 2022 2022, Slate Annoyed With Clear, the Company That Fast-Tracks Its Customers Through Airports? David Zipper December 20, 2022 2022, Slate Why CLEAR shouldn’t be profiting by letting customers cut the line at airport security
David Zipper December 13, 2022 2022, CityLab Tiny Cars, Big Opportunity David Zipper December 13, 2022 2022, CityLab Let us sing the praise of weird and wonderful minicars
David Zipper December 8, 2022 2022, Slate Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco David Zipper December 8, 2022 2022, Slate San Francisco’s struggle to manage robotaxis are a warning for other cities
David Zipper December 5, 2022 2022, The Verge Why automating trucking is harder than you think David Zipper December 5, 2022 2022, The Verge My interview with author/professor Karen Levy about the future of trucking, autonomous or otherwise
David Zipper December 1, 2022 2022, CityLab The Case for Guerrilla Crosswalks David Zipper December 1, 2022 2022, CityLab Frustrated citizen activists are painting their own crosswalks. Good for them.
David Zipper November 8, 2022 2022, Fast Company Why cracking down on e-bikes is the wrong response to recent battery fires David Zipper November 8, 2022 2022, Fast Company My exploration of the often-misunderstood problem of “e-bike fires.”
David Zipper November 7, 2022 Slate, 2022 The Car Safety Feature That Kills the Other Guy David Zipper November 7, 2022 Slate, 2022 It’s a problem when a “safe car” means “bigger car.”
David Zipper November 3, 2022 2022, CityLab, Featured US Traffic Safety Is Getting Worse, While Other Countries Improve David Zipper November 3, 2022 2022, CityLab, Featured Why are Americans 2.5x to 4x more likely to die in a crash than those in other rich countries?
David Zipper November 2, 2022 2022, Fast Company Why car companies should fear the golf cart David Zipper November 2, 2022 2022, Fast Company By building expensive, enormous cars, automakers are inviting disruption.
David Zipper October 27, 2022 2022, Fast Company Automakers like Audi claim this new technology will keep bikers safe. It won’t. David Zipper October 27, 2022 2022, Fast Company C-V2X is not a bike safety panacea.
David Zipper October 24, 2022 2022, The Verge Don’t expect your car’s safety technology to save you David Zipper October 24, 2022 2022, The Verge Can car technology end the US road safety crisis? (TLDR: It cannot)
David Zipper October 7, 2022 CityLab, 2022 How Finland Put Traffic Crashes on Ice David Zipper October 7, 2022 CityLab, 2022 Why is traveling in Finland — a country of dark, snowy winters — 3x safer than in the USA?
David Zipper October 2, 2022 2022, Other, Sierra Club Magazine Why E-Bikes Could Change Everything David Zipper October 2, 2022 2022, Other, Sierra Club Magazine Environmentalists should be ecstatic about the rise of e-bikes — even if they themselves don’t ride one.
David Zipper September 19, 2022 2022, Fast Company Yes to electric cars—but not the Hummer EV David Zipper September 19, 2022 2022, Fast Company The Hummer EV is a disaster for the environment and road safety alike
David Zipper September 12, 2022 2022, The Verge There's No Driving Test for Self-Driving Cars in the US — But There Should be David Zipper September 12, 2022 2022, The Verge The federal government can prevent dangerous software from being sold if it’s on a plane — but not if it’s inside a car. Why?
David Zipper September 7, 2022 2022, CityLab How Japan Won its ‘Traffic War’ David Zipper September 7, 2022 2022, CityLab In Japan, the risk of dying in a crash is 1/6 the US rate. What makes traveling in Japan so safe?
David Zipper August 31, 2022 2022, Slate Car Companies Are Making a Deadly Mistake With Electric Vehicles David Zipper August 31, 2022 2022, Slate There shouldn’t be a tradeoff between EV adoption and road safety. But we’re at risk of creating one.
David Zipper August 18, 2022 2022, CityLab Why New York City’s Car Safety Pilot Is a Big Deal David Zipper August 18, 2022 2022, CityLab New York City has become the first US city to install speed limiters on its own vehicles. That could pave the way for a national campaign.
