This is intended as a broad and open ended question.

  • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.socialEnglish
    371·
    10 hours ago

    2 stroke engines as means of transport for teenage boys.

    What? No, of course that gathering of mopeds 150m from my apartment building isn’t affecting my unbiased opinion on this.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        59 minutes ago

        Small 2 stroke engines create more particulate and nitrogen pollution than big excavators and bulldozers.

        Not relatively, per unit. A leaf blower or moped is worse than a 20 ton caterpillar.

    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldOP
      71·
      10 hours ago

      Mopeds do indeed suck, in my opinion, because their technological niche is just “filtering through heavy traffic easily”

      The heavy traffic usually exists because

      • a city has expanded car ownership beyond its transport capacity
      • but cities shouldn’t even be mainly-car, they should be mainly public transport and pedestrian (see c/fuck_cars for more info)

      So they’re basically colving a problem that didn’t need to exist in the first place. The riding of bikes is better for pepple

      • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Ah, that’s not really a thing here. Sometimes they do zip through the traffic, but we don’t really have a standstill traffic jams too often and when we do, the mopeds sort of just hang in the traffic, being stuck with everyone else.

        I guess we are a bit German in that sense.