I suppose the middle ground is to just continue what you were doing with a slight negative factor of idk 0.8x speed.

Don't let the people win, but also do not suddenly assume powers you do not actually have.

Essentially, plausible deniability but on the road. You might really just be a slow passing slow lane changing driver.

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The goal is to reintroduce friction into everyday life to nudge people into being less antisocial and/or make them slightly suffer for being that.

The goal is not to become a vigilante.

One brings a stable society, the other just a different flavor of the same chaos that came before.