This is intended as a broad and open ended question.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldOP
    111·
    9 days 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

    • someguy3@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      I mean they’re cheaper to buy and operate, easier to park, don’t take up as much space as cars either parked or on the road. They should be more popular, just they should be electric now.

    • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      9 days 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.