Robotaxis Are Here. But Are They Safe? ⁠57%

By James P. Sutton⁠8% Evan Spear⁠8% Surya Gowda⁠11% Wesley Liu⁠76% Ross Anderson⁠8%

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% (9,173 of 21,170 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.70% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 3.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 24.4%James P. Sutton: 0.3%The Dispatch: 0.4%Anchoring Bias24.4%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.9%The Dispatch: 1.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 4.4%James P. Sutton: 2.0%The Dispatch: 4.8%Framing Effect4.4%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 1.5%The Dispatch: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 28.9%James P. Sutton: 0.8%The Dispatch: 1.6%Optimism Bias28.9%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 4.4%James P. Sutton: 2.1%The Dispatch: 5.3%Negativity Bias4.4%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 1.2%The Dispatch: 1.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 25.6%James P. Sutton: 3.0%The Dispatch: 1.9%Halo Effect25.6%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 25.6%James P. Sutton: 0.7%The Dispatch: 1.0%Recency Bias25.6%This article: 28.9%James P. Sutton: 0.4%The Dispatch: 0.3%Primacy Effect28.9%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 6.7%The Dispatch: 3.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 2.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 3.3%James P. Sutton: 0.5%The Dispatch: 5.6%Hasty Generalization3.3%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 25.6%James P. Sutton: 1.1%The Dispatch: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion25.6%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 1.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 11.1%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.5%Burden of Proof11.1%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.5%The Dispatch: 1.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.4%The Dispatch: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.3%The Dispatch: 1.3%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.6%The Dispatch: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 2.1%The Dispatch: 6.8%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.8%The Dispatch: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 36.7%James P. Sutton: 12.0%The Dispatch: 6.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…36.7%

90 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers61%attributed speech35writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageChipotle • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageDispatch • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageChipotle • 23 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Dispatch

100%flagged-word coverage
10 attributed words18% of attributed speech86% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +34.3 ptsWriter: 65.7%Dispatch: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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