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@BentMikey
That's OK Fausto, I used to be rather more anti-mirror than I should have been in hindsight. I now use them on recumbents because they're essential there, although I couldn't put one on any of my uprights and still look myself in the eye in the mirror. :D
I'm with you on the looking back - but it would have made no difference on this driver. She was determined to come through no matter what. I think I'm fairly good at compensating for the reduced looking back by signalling, and that extra signalling seems to have much the same effect on drivers as looking back.
Peter, you still can see the video, you just have to search for the numberplate as I mentioned above. Sexist? I'm not sure how you jump to that conclusion. If it's from "stupid woman", I'm just as likely to say that about a man's driving, and I have in the past, so not sexist at all.
She most certainly did learn from the video, she was ashamed of it, and got a Roadsafe letter about her driving. If she's anything like "D4N OK", then her next pass will be considerably better. The two D4N OK videos are worth a watch for the change in behaviour that a camera and some police attention causes.