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@Maj
surely in the everyday this means nothing and one should continue to cycle with the idea that cars will simply kill you regardless of your right of way.
but, i can imagine these have some quite good implications if a driver bumps you off your bike at a junction - if you survive - if the rules ever get published further than the forgettable toilet paper which drivers percieve the highway code - if you have evidence/ recording of the incident - if the jury wasn't car brained - if you can afford - if you have the mental fortitude to go through a multi year court battle - etcetc
long term, culturally, these are quite good changes as the wording is now quite explicit.
and at very worse you can carry a copy round with you to extended family functions and when a relative with a evoque starts hassling you, it can be pulled out preformatively and pointed too to make your point which im sure will be recieved by groans and uncaring noises. which you can the retell here and be digitially clapped at.