Bus driver: Had the garbage truck

Answer choices

1. A

   Weak Conclusion Match13% picked this

   If a vehicle whose driver is violating a traffic regulation collides with a vehicle whose driver is not, the driver of the first vehicle

   This one is very tempting, since the trigger of the rule fits the facts of our argument. However, the conclusion isn't about who is solely responsible for the accident, it's about whether the bus company should / shouldn't reprimand this driver. The bus company could be like, "Yes, obviously it was the garbage truck driver's fault, but we're still mad that you didn't avoid the accident, since now we have to deal with getting the bus repaired."

   13%
2. B

   Bad Premise Match13% picked this

   A bus company should not reprimand one of its drivers whose bus is involved in a collision if a police report confirms that the

   Now we have the right conclusion, but we can't trigger this rule. Police report should confirms Driver 2 ? not totally at fault reprimand Did a police report confirm Driver 2 was to blame? Not that we've heard of.

   13%
3. C

   Illegal Opposite3% picked this

   Whenever a bus driver causes a collision to occur by violating a traffic regulation, the bus company

   This is doing an Illegal Opposite move. We would have liked a rule that looked like: Driver didn't should break any ? not traffic rule reprimand And this is just negating each side and saying, "If the driver did break a rule, they should be reprimanded."

   3%
4. D

   Bad Premise Match3% picked this

   A company that employs bus drivers should reprimand those drivers only when they become involved in collisions that they reasonably could

   This rule looks like this: driver could not should have been expected ? not be to avoid accident reprimanded In the case of this bus driver, was it established that he couldn't have been expected to avoid the accident? No. Actually, almost the opposite of that was established.

   3%
5. E

   Correct69% picked this

   When a bus is involved in a collision, the bus driver should not be reprimanded by the bus company if the collision did not

   Why this is right

   bus collision didn't should not be in a + result from bus ? reprimanded collision driver breaking for the accident a rule Was it established that this collision didn't result from the driver breaking a rule? Yes, because we know this driver didn't break a rule. The other driver did break a rule. And the collision would not have happened if the other driver hadn't been speeding. The collision resulted from the garbage truck's breaking of the speed limit.

   Skill tested: Principle-Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   69%