Auto industry executive: Statistics show that cars that were built smaller after 1977 to make them more fuel-efficient had a higher incidence of accident-related fatalities than did their earlier larger counterparts. For this reason we oppose recent guidelines that would require us to produce cars with higher fuel efficiency.
Type-weaken
The opposition is not really based earlier fuel efficiency increases, but rather on the fact that smaller cars appear to have brought more fatalities. The executive clearly presumes that any effort to increase fuel efficiency must include a reduction in size.
A. Even after 1977, large automobiles were frequently involved in accidents that caused death or serious injury.- incorrect, This choice fails to weaken the argument, because the executive doesn’t claim that large cars are invulnerable
B. Although fatalities in accidents involving small cars have increased since 1977, the number of accidents has decreased.- incorrect, strengthens the assertion that smaller cars are more dangerous; if the overall number of fatalities has decreased, and yet the number of smaller car based fatalities has increased, this means that the proportion of smaller car fatalities must have grown
C. New computerized fuel systems can enable large cars to meet fuel efficiency standards established by the recent guidelines.- Correct, If the new guidelines can be met even by larger cars, then this negates the executive’s premise about the safety of smaller cars and the associated increase in fatalities.
D. Modern technology can make small cars more fuel-efficient today than at any other time in their production history.- irrelevant, Regardless of the gains in efficiency, the argument in the stimulus is based on safety concerns.
E. Fuel efficiency in models of large cars rose immediately after 1977 but has been declining ever since.- irrelevant
Answer C
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