Driverless Cars are Behind Schedule

The best authors use logical fallacies to persuade their readers. In an Article titled When Will Self-Driving Cars Take Over?  from theWeek.com an author seeks to persuade the reader to believe that the driverless-car revolution is way behind schedule. The author mostly relies on the persuasive techniques know as Confirmation Bias and Bind Loyalty. These are effective because they give the author’s claim and argument credibility. It gives solid facts/evidence to support his/hers claim. The Author quotes Austin Russell the CEO of Lidar manufacturer Luminar who says “We’re not even remotely close to being able to be truly autonomous in diverse conditions.” In other words, a driverless car still needs a human driver. The author states that there were more that 40,000 traffic-related deaths in the U.S. in 2017 and the 94% are cause by human error. This means that driverless cars are safer than a human so they should already be on the road. The author says nearly 2 million Americans drive heavy trucks for a living, and another 1.7million drive busses, taxies and delivery vehicles but if driverless cars take over the roads then truckers and taxi, bus, and delivery drivers  would be put out of work.

The author makes very good use of the  logical fallacy Confirmation Bias in order to get his readers to agree that driverless cars should have been on the road long ago. The author gives a lot of data to show that the age of driverless cars is far overdo this data that the author shows is that companies are afraid that they will waste billions of dollars. Another piece of evidence is that there will be difficulty with technology, design obstacles, testing, road rules, and the impact on truckers and taxis.

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT COLIN KAEPERNICK AND THE NIKE CAMPAIGN

By Dustin Smith

Mr. Somers

3rd Period

10/29/2018

Colin Kaepernick’s choice to kneel during the national anthem has gotten a lot of  attention. President Donald Trump has caused this situation. His hate-filled speech encourages division and protest. He has also gave his opinion about Nike’s decision to make him the face of the “Just Do It” campaign. The reason for Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the national anthem was to inform people about the police brutality against african americans. President trump has said that he disagrees with this, because of this some Americans think Trump is racist.  I think his protest isn’t the normal way Americans salute the flag during the anthem. President trump also says that he doesn’t think that Kaepernick is disrespecting the flag, but merely showing that he also has freedom and rights like everyone else. Kaepernick chose to show his rights and I  agree with this. Another thing is that I don’t see a way for either side to agree, but the amount of police brutality against african americans today is unreal and needs to be addressed. However, standing for the national anthem is part the american culture and tradition. I question whether Trump is helping the situation with his comments.

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE SYNAGOGUE MASSACRE

By Dustin Smith

Mr. Somers

3rd period

11/1/18

In this article that it said that Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto called the attack the “darkest day of Pittsburgh’s history.” He also disputed President Trump’s suggestion that the synagogue should have had armed guards. The mayor said, that “we will not try to rationalize irrational behavior.” I like this statement because I also don’t like what he means by “irrational behavior.” This act was not irrational behavior because Bowers made a choice to kill the people in the synagogue. When it said that Bowers said “They’re committing genocide against my people I was confused by who are his people. Also, I haven’t seen any Jews killing anyone. You don’t just go into a synagogue and shoot the place up and have your excuse for doing this being “I just want to kill jews.” as far as the dispute over armed guards in the synagogue I disagree with Trump’s suggestion. I disagree about armed guards in synagogues because churches are a place for comfort and protection; and you don’t want to be greeted by and armed guard. Ok but why Bowers think taking guns is going to solve anything all it does is get you either the death sentence or life in jail. If you post angry and racist posts about the Jewish and only that his anger towards them would only get worse. This is why he ended up killing 11 people instead of staying in his basement and posting his rants on his computer.