Just about every licensed, and unlicensed, motorist reading this is a good driver. Perhaps even an excellent driver.
How do we know this? Because that is what we habitually tell each other and how we convince ourselves of our responsible nature on the roads.
So powerful and motivating is this view that just about every call by authorities and road safety campaigners receives an online and talk radio copy-and-paste response that puts all the blame on a short list of usual suspects.
From this formulation, continuing carnage on the roads is