This is intended as a broad and open ended question.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldOP
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    12 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.social
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      12 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.