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Later in the paragraph, he uses pathos again when talking about a family in Leonhardt’s community who had died in a car crash. The fact that it was a family in the author’s neighborhood makes it a little more appealable, yet the author tells the story ineffectively due to a lack of emotion in his storytelling method. The story was very brief, lasting only two sentences. I now length doesn’t usually make something effective or not, but the story lacked important details that could have made it more effective. For instance, if the author had given the people in the story names, it would have made the story easier to sympathize with, but without the names, the characters were dehumanized, leaving the audience without a genuine care for the characters.

The author effectively uses logical arguments to make the fear of automated cars irrational. An example of this is when Leonhardt mentions how automation can remove most errors – human errors – because “computers don’t get drowsy, drunk or distracted by text messages, and they don’t have blind spots.” These are all facts, which strengthens the argument because these factors cannot be denied. In the same paragraph, he points to consumer trust in American commercial airlines, which heavily rely on automation to do most functions, and he states, “the last [fatal crash among American air carriers] happened in 2009.” This is a strong point to make because it makes consumers rethink how they view automated functions if hundreds of millions are already putting their lives in its