The first, and only problem you have with your thought process is that it is wrong.

Watch any police show for more than 5 minutes and you realize that it doesn't necessarily matter if you are right or wrong. If the cop says you are wrong, you are wrong.

Your only option at that point is to contest a ticket, arrest or detainment in court. It doesn't matter what we say online. That cop can just as easily assume you re failing to follow his order for safety at that moment and throw you in the clink.


As far as the mirror situation:

I don't shave on a bike, so I don't need to see my face. I don't even want to imagine what it looks like staring aimlessly in the mirror behind me waiting for someone to do anything. Call it ignorance being bliss - but I'm usually worried about keeping over 20 going in the direction I'm going well enough that situationally glancing behind me could be catastrophic. I couldn't imagine the true difficulty of discerning driver's motive from a side-view mirror though, to be honest.