While I’ll agree to a certain point, that it may well be people in glass houses throwing stones also consider it from the other side and the benefit it provides.
First off, driving is a privilege, not a right. The whole country, if not the world, could benefit from an attitude shift on that.
Secondly, after passing the L test, very few people actually bother to try and improve their driving skills, or even maintain the knowledge they had when they passed that L test. Watch cars turning right at a roundabout and you’ll see 3 do the same manoeuvre but come off that roundabout with all 3 different indicator options.
Three, with changes in policing, most forces no longer have traffic specialists who have the power of discretion and could decide that a little road side chat might improve things out there. Without the sheffiffs, it’s getting more and more like the wild west.
Four, short of don’t text and drive and don’t drink and drive, there’s very little in the way of public information campaigns now to help keep peoples driving standards up.
What that all means, is that the STW specialist driving kangaroo court is about the only place I can think of, where driving behaviour is discussed. Given the effect poor driving can have on entire families in the blink of an eye, if hurting one persons feelings on a thread like this, causes one contributor, or forum lurker, to think a little more about how they behave on the road, then long may it continue.
Sorry/not sorry for the rant, but having worked in traffic management/road safety for a local authority for a number of years, as well as being a DSA instructor and an advanced instructor, it’s a subject close to my heart.