Whenever someone complains about why their shared video link on YouTube ‘won’t work’.
It works, but people largely forgot that Google stupidly ruined that ability for everyone by making it mandatory that you be logged in to watch videos, so you’re not flagged as a bot. But, since you’re sharing a link to the video or embedding it, you can’t watch it anyways because the stupid prompt shows up, forcing you to go to the site itself.
I hadn’t considered that they were purposefully impeding legal vehicle maneuvers as the safety police.
That’s actually far less likely than those drivers just not knowing what’s going on. There is considerable overlap between them and drivers who spend all their time on the right side of their lane / overlapping the bike lane.
Go figure that on Lemmy the “fuck cars” crowd would get behind this, though.
Oh they are 100% oblivious to what they are doing. But the unintended effect is likely still there.