Driving without looking

Frankly I'm speechless, 7days today carries the tale of a woman who has twice reversed out of her garage into a ditch, now I know it is a pisser when the municipality start digging outside your place, last year I had to park at the end of our road for 5 months while they painstakingly laid bricks in the road outside, but please, once I can understand - twice??
Look there are these plastic and glass things right beside you, funnily enough you can see backwards with them, great eh?
Come to think of it very few people in Dubai have any idea what mirrors are for, if they can even see them through the megablack tint, so perhaps it isn't that surprising after all.
DW