If you don't want someone to hit your car, then why would you hit/tap your brakes when they are riding your @$$?

I agree with thirteendog completely. If anyone behind you wants to go faster than you, then move the **** over. Even if you are going 120 mph, if someone comes flying up behind you, or is pacing you behind you, then move the **** over.

There are multiple ways you could have gotten in "trouble" or hurt. The guy could rear-end you, and anything could happen in a highway accident. You're not miraculously going to be free from all possible injuries just because the other guy would probably be found at fault.

He also could have gotten out of the car and beat your @$$ after the accident just for the hell of it. Or, for you being a douchebag "brake-checking," he could always pull out a gun or throw something at your car (as happened to some other guy on the forum - he got nails thrown at his car, and blew out his tires and messed up his rims).