I wrote off Veritasium when they ran an advertorial about how incredibly safe self-driving cars are, sponsored by Waymo, mostly just citing Waymos own studies.

I had a similar reaction, though just becoming more skeptical of his videos. It did introduce me into a number of others that presented the counter arguments and more complete demonstrations and explanations of the whole thing that fixed a few of my own mis-understandings about it. I posted a sibling comment to yours about AlphaPhoenix who ended up doing the coolest and most complete demo and measurement of what's going on that I've ever seen.

I thought it was well done

I think it’s useful to point out that in many areas we use a simplified model of the world, because they are much easier to use and the predictions are accurate enough for the intended purposes. But they are not how things actually work, and people forget that.

Interesting, I guess I'll have to dig deeper. I definitely want to understand this better.

Yeah, that whole electricity series really put a massive dent in how I viewed all his videos, knocking down veritasium from a 1st rate science channel to a 2nd or 3rd one.

The entire series was predicated on a deeply technical "gotcha" that just caused a bunch of eye rolls from informed viewers.