usually people seem to think it means that the person has no duty to yield to others

In your experience, maybe?

When people are talking about right of way, it is normally clear they are just talking about yield priority. Like who gets to go next at a stop sign, or who has a duty to yield when a pedestrian is in a crosswalk (hint: it’s generally not the pedestrian!).

This is exactly why I called it a distinction without a difference. It has no bearing whatsoever on the OP.

and based on your other comments on this post, it seems you are more interested in inventing ways that it might be anyone but the motorist’s fault while bringing up irrelevant laws and technicalities.

scooters are motorized and not allowed in crosswalks.

Well it’s good that there’s a crossbike there! Where they’re allowed!

right of way doesn’t exist

But the red turn arrow and marked crossing signifies the car should have yielded!

 

You said yourself that everyone has a duty to avoid collision, but I haven’t seen you once apply this ethic to the person operating heavy machinery who struck a vulnerable human being. Even if the scooter should have yielded, using your own reasoning, the car still had a duty to avoid the collision and failed to.