Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
When being tailgated, what is the safest action?
- Increase your following distance ahead and, if possible, let the tailgater pass — correct answer
- Tap your brakes to warn the driver behind
- Speed up to escape the tailgater
Why
Increase the gap ahead of you so you can brake gently instead of hard, and let the tailgater pass as soon as you safely can.
Practise this in the real format
Reading one answer is not the same as sitting the test. The simulator runs the first-time adult form: 36 questions, 6 mistakes allowed, 83% to pass.
Source: California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025), the document the DMV writes the real test from. Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.
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