The best use logical fallacies to persuade their readers. In the article When Self-Driving Cars Take Over? by the week.com an author seeks to persuade the reader to believe that the driverless-car revolution is way behind schedule.
The author uses confirmation bias because it only gives facts and evidence to support his claim. The author states… “futuristic technology has faltered un the unpredictable chaos of real-world rules.” The author also gives the following reasons for why these cars are overdue “we’re not even remotely close to being able to be truly autonomous in diverse conditions.”
He goes on to cite Uber which predicts that between 500,000 and 1.5 million self-driving trucks could be on the road by 2028. Lastly, he says there are more than 40,000 traffic-related deaths in the U.S. in 2017, and 94 % of car accidents are caused by human errors. This is an effective argument because it shows that computerized cars are much safer. The author relies on logical fallacies to prove his claim. He does a very good job using logical fallacy to convince the reader that driverless cars should have been on the road long ago.