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Which invention of human technology is your least favourite? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 36 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 9 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.

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