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.