{"id":701,"date":"2018-09-19T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T08:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/?p=701"},"modified":"2020-10-09T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:59:57","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-tailgating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"The Pros and Cons of Tailgating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Highways England stated an awareness campaign highlighting the issue of tailgating. More information can be found by following <a href=\"https:\/\/highwaysengland.co.uk\/staysafestayback\/\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember the <em>two second rule<\/em> &#8211; always keep at least two seconds between you and the car in front. Increase this to four seconds in adverse weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>So, the pros of tailgating are: <strong>none<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the cons of tailgating include: <strong>reduced forward visibility\u00a0<\/strong>leading to\u00a0<strong>less time to react to hazards<\/strong>; <strong>inducing anxiety in the driver of the car in front<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Highways England stated an awareness campaign highlighting the issue of tailgating. More information can be found by following this link. Just remember the two second rule &#8211; always keep at least two seconds between you and the car&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving-tips","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}