When driving a bus, if you notice that the vehicle behind you is not keeping a safety distance and is getting too close, what preventive measure must you take to reduce the risk of a rear-end collision?

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In preventive and defensive driving techniques, when a vehicle follows too closely ("tailgating"), we have no direct control over the distance behind us, but we can compensate for it by widening the safety margin ahead. By increasing the distance to the vehicle ahead, we will have more space and reaction time, which will allow us to slow down or stop the bus smoothly and gradually if something unexpected happens, avoiding sudden braking that would cause the vehicle behind to hit us. Reducing the gap in front is incorrect and very dangerous, since it would exponentially increase the risk of a multiple collision. Accelerating is equally wrong, since it usually causes the offending vehicle to increase its speed too, raising the danger and possibly exceeding the regulatory limits.

When driving a bus, if you notice that the vehicle behind you is not keeping a safety distance and is getting too close, what preventive measure must you take to reduce the risk of a rear-end collision?

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