The driver of the white passenger car in this situation

Explanation

You must give way to the bus pulling out from the marked stop. The stop sign is visible on the right and the red bus is starting off from exactly that place; within a built-up area drivers must give way to public transport vehicles setting off from a designated stop, so you slow down and let it join the flow. The exception exists because a bus is long, heavy and slow to accelerate: made to wait for a gap like an ordinary car, it would be trapped at the stop in peak hours with part of its body exposed outside the bay. Note the two conditions — built-up area and a designated stop — and note that the bus driver must still signal and make sure the move is safe.

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