Originally Posted by UniChris

You appear to have a drastic misunderstanding of the law. Apart from a few "bugfixes" it doesn't really change right of way, just clarify things.

In particular, the "hierarchy" is not a system of right of way. This becomes obvious if you look at the entire hierarchy and not just the first few lines - you'll find that there's an ordering to various types of motor vehicles, too - but one that does not determine the right of way between - the right of way is determined by situation as it's always been.

And that that hierarchy doesn't even reflect any relative public benefit of various modes, since it ranks private cars over buses!

What it actually is, is an aspect of what we'd call a due care law.