David Zipper Breaks Down New Fed Proposal to Lower Front Ends of Cars

On this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation I’m speaking with David Zipper. He’s a Senior Fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative, who also has a mass amount of knowledge about the transportation industry. He’s appeared on NBC Nightly News and CNN and written for Slate, Vox, the Atlantic and so much more.

I recently was doing a story about this for Radio IQ and Zipper let me take our interview and use it for this podcast.

Zipper and I talk about a recent proposal released from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration that in a nutshell will basically require automakers to reduce the size–the front ends really of trucks and SUVs that weigh 10,000 pounds or less. It’s a huge deal.

In 2022 roughly 90-percent of pedestrian fatalities happened in single vehicle crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Zipper  says many of those fatalities were caused by large trucks and SUVs.

We talk about what this means and when it can actually start happening. 

Find out more about David Zipper 

You can hear more of another conversation David Zipper and I had when I guest hosted Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad, found wherever you get your podcasts.