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Read the excerpt from Amit’s essay.

In the mid-2010s, it was predicted that by 2020, self-driving cars would be prevalent on the nation’s highways. Automotive manufacturers agreed, proclaiming that they would have cars driven by AI—artificial intelligence—by the early 2020s. However, this proved to be a failed forecast. By 2021, self-driving cars were not even out of testing phases. What led to this massive miscalculation? After all, the technology existed to make self-driving vacuums, so why not cars? It should have been easy for engineers to take the parts from one self-driving machine and put them into another.

Which logical fallacy is present in Amit’s argument?

straw man
non sequitur
false dilemma
faulty analogy

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Answer:

The logical fallacy present in Amit's argument is a faulty analogy. Amit suggests that since engineers were able to create self-driving vacuums, it should have been easy for them to transfer the same technology to self-driving cars. However, this analogy is flawed because self-driving vacuums and self-driving cars are not equivalent in terms of complexity and the challenges they present. The technology and engineering required for self-driving vacuums are different from those needed for self-driving cars. Therefore, it is not valid to assume that the success in developing one automatically guarantees success in developing the other. This faulty analogy undermines the argument and leads to a miscalculation in predicting the timeline for self-driving cars