The great American highway is not a good place to play

Over the past 45 years, we have virtually stood still while our peers have zoomed ahead in the realm of traffic safety. Many of these countries have taken the long view and have tackled the hard, ingrained cultural, political and engineering issues that must be addressed to bring about sustained reductions in traffic fatalities.

Laziness on the part of American public policy officials has caused our abysmal world road safety rankings.

↩︎ Vox, posted Dec. 2, 2016

A long-standing, deadly, overlooked inequality in US policing

Americans who die resulting from police car chases—one of the deadliest police practices, and one that ought to be banned outright—are vastly disproportionately black.

↩︎ posted Dec. 2, 2016

How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure: Increased child deaths due to car accidents, paired with the 1970s oil crisis, led to the Netherlands adopting a nationwide protected bike lane system. Child deaths on the road decreased dramatically.

↩︎ posted Dec. 2, 2016

The only innovation in hand is that the old “You rang m’Lord” system has been transformed into a “you hailed me on your app m’Lord” one instead.

Uber investors are no longer paying for innovation, they’re paying for Uber to maintain its monopoly by subsidizing user costs (the price of rides)—a “charity case.” The bottom will fall out sooner or later.

↩︎ FT Alphaville, posted Dec. 2, 2016

America’s roads cost drivers billions of dollars a year. It does not need to be this way.

↩︎ posted Dec. 2, 2016