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Proof by strawman imaginary counter-example

The first 2 sentences of the article we're discussing:

> On an early April morning, around 4 am, a San Francisco Fire Department truck responding to a fire tried to pass a doubled-parked garbage truck by using the opposing lane. But a traveling autonomous vehicle, operated by the General Motors subsidiary Cruise without anyone inside, was blocking its path.

I don't think it's intolerable to use a straw-man argument when discussing scarecrows.

Autonomous car didn't seem to fail to notice the fire truck, just that it arguably took the wrong course of action by yielding to the right instead of reversing into the intersection.

This example is what we're discussing, e.g. the article.

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