[citation needed] However, the revellers do occasionally throw confetti (usually larger and more sparkly than that in a carnival parade) and spray foam from the vehicles onto the crowd.

[citation needed] In contrast to a carnival parade, the vehicles are little more than flatbed trucks with sound equipment, rather than elaborately decorated floats.

[1] Technoparades generally have a carnival atmosphere,[citation needed] where social rules (and some laws, or at least their enforcement) are at least loosened, and sometimes broken outright.

[citation needed] In the technoparade subculture they call this the Verwirrungsgebiet ("overlap zone") by analogy to a concept in radio frequency engineering.

In contrast to technoparades which are characterized by free participation on the street, in this case only the passengers on the vessels or inside the trams are part of the event.