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Robotaxis Are Here. But Are They Safe? 57%
By James P. Sutton6% Evan Spear6% Surya Gowda10% Wesley Liu77% Ross Anderson6%
7/15/2026, 10:50:06 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Primacy Effect, and Halo Effect, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 36.7% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 197 faulty-reasoning hits from 90 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.2% and a BS Rank of 57% (7,018 of 15,984 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.10% of the article peer group.
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Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
24.4%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
4.4%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
28.9%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
4.4%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
25.6%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
25.6%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
28.9%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
3.3%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
25.6%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
11.1%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
36.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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90 words analyzed.
Analysis
Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.