Amen. A scangage in every dash, I tell ya.
Don't a lot of BMWs and Merc's have FE meters on the dash?

Its not that you 'need' to drive differently in a hybrid- its simply that the evidence of what you're doing is staring you in the face, which guilts you into changing. Whwen you think about it objectively, you are simply adjusting to drive the way we all should have been driving in the 1st place- rationally, within the most efficient band of operation for that method of transportation.
In most normal cars there's no way to see the effects of what you're doing, and by the time you fill up and calculate the damage you can't pin it on any single thing.

There is no need to resort to any 'extreme' techniques for 'extreme' mpg. UNless you want to, as a sort of game. I don't, and regularly get entire tanks over the EPA highway estimate for mpg.

Mark-
I am not sure I understand your 'disappointment' about needing to be aware of what you're doing. You are commanding a large, very complex piece of machinery that is one of the current pinnacles of engineering effort since the invention of the wheel. It deserves your full attention when you are in it. It should amaze you in the back of your mind every time you see it. That much capability was unthinkable even 1/2 a generation ago.

We as a culture don't feel very sorry for people anymore who complain that after they diet, they put the weight back on- because its generally known by now that it takes behavioral changes along with diet changes to keep wieght off. If you keep the same sedentary or overindulgent lifestyle but go off the diet, now your caloric intake is again greater than your expenditure and you put the weight back on. So after 30+ years of hearing about this we have little sympathy anymore for those who keep looking for the magic diet elixr.

Just like dieting, there is no magic bullet of technology that will make everything all better for fuel economy- it takes the proper technology combined with personal behavior. And more often than not, behavior is more important than the technology. Unfortunately this lesson has just began to be taught to the general public. Dieting has a generation's worth of headstart.

Having said that, many simply choose to continue living (driving) as they always have. OK. Their choice, but its an informed choice at least. Everyone operates rationally within their personal context. The technology will/does benefit them as well; its just not maximized, and the benefits sometimes get erased by other behaviors or factors.