Fascinating, thanks for sharing!

Of course it makes sense. In fact I believe I have a similar problem while cycling on a one way street for cars while cycling on the (non protected) bike lane of the opposite direction. I hate that street because very often cars do not move away... because they don't look up. They are busy doing I don't know what in their cars... probably because, if I understood the idea properly, they think it's all fine, nobody "should" come from anywhere but behind them, so the "can" be "distracted".

Also makes me think of Jevons's paradox (or the rebound effect) but for attention or even more broadly cognition.