Nostr notes by David Zipper

Americans drive a lot more than people in other rich countries. ...

2026-03-11T12:25:57Z

Americans drive a lot more than people in other rich countries.

If we didn’t drive so much, we wouldn’t die in so many crashes.

It’s a simple point, but one that NHTSA, traffic engineers, and many road safety org’s have yet to learn.

Me, in Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/how-deadly-are-us-roads-it-depends-on-how-you-count-traffic-fatalities

#safety #policy #crashes

My latest, in Bloomberg: There’s a widespread myth that ...

2025-08-28T13:15:43Z

My latest, in Bloomberg:

There’s a widespread myth that Americans hate traffic cameras. It’s simply not true.

On the contrary, researchers have consistently found that Americans broadly support using automatic enforcement to curb crashes. And for good reason: It works.

#transportation #safety #traffic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/automated-traffic-enforcement-is-more-popular-than-you-think

Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban ...

2025-03-14T13:03:33Z

Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:

“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”

He was right. We just didn’t listen.

My homage, in Bloomberg CityLab:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/in-1955-lewis-mumford-saw-nyc-s-congestion-battle-coming?srnd=phx-citylab

#cities #history #highways

My latest in Fast Company: We need to stop saying “road safety ...

2024-11-21T13:20:00Z

My latest in Fast Company:

We need to stop saying “road safety is a shared responsibility.”

Road engineers, automakers, and policymakers have the power to reduce the sky-high number of US crash deaths. Individual road users don't.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91233037/whos-really-to-blame-and-who-isnt-for-americas-traffic-death-epidemic

#crash #safety

The Fast Company story draws from a new research brief I produced ...

2024-11-14T14:12:11Z

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The Fast Company story draws from a new research brief I produced for the MIT Mobility Initiative, where I'm a Senior Fellow.

I examined the EV quality metrics shared in carmaker marketing, which plays an outsized role shaping consumer preferences. What I found concerns me.

https://www.mmi.mit.edu/evmarketing

In a new Fast Company story, I argued that focusing on range and ...

2024-11-14T14:10:18Z

In a new Fast Company story, I argued that focusing on range and acceleration -- the most popular metrics for EV quality -- will lead to confused customers, wasted resources, and needless road deaths.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91227386/forget-about-ev-range-and-focus-on-this-instead

#electricvehicles #cars #climate #climatechange

On NPR's Morning Edition, I sounded off about car bloat: ...

2024-08-24T11:46:43Z

On NPR's Morning Edition, I sounded off about car bloat:

Oversized trucks and SUVs "create danger for everybody else on the street because of their mass and because of their height, whether you're walking or biking or inside a smaller car."

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/nx-s1-5084276/pedestrian-protection-bill-bigger-cars-trucks

#cars #bike #walk

The biggest source of urban noise? Motor vehicles. In Bloomberg ...

2024-07-31T12:12:31Z

The biggest source of urban noise? Motor vehicles.

In Bloomberg CityLab , I explained why car-free neighborhoods are magically quiet – and healthier, too.

#cities #urbanism

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-31/the-quiet-power-of-car-free-neighborhoods?srnd=citylab