Safety Grades

"To Curb Grade Inflation, Safety Tests Get Tougher" written by Jim Motavalli on March 25, 2010 in the NTY uses many facts to produce his point so I have come to the conclusion that he is using induction to persuade his readers. He uses some analogy as well.

The first thing he says in his article is an analogy. He states that a student coming home with low grades like c's or d's should be cause for concern. With the new rules for "safety grades" coming up, he believes the lower grades will be a cause for concern to car buyers. He again compares the safety grades to teenagers saying that parents would wonder why their child earned an A in one semester of history and then a C+ the next. This is what the new grading system will do to their cars grades.

Claim: The Auto Industry needs to make some changes in the grading scale.
Grounds: Too many cars are receiving a 4 or 5 star rating just because they passed the crash test when they should receive a 2 or 3 star rating because they didn't perform all that well.
Conclusion: The claim is true

I pulled this one straight out of the article because it matches up with the pattern of an induction argument. Here is the passage:

"Cars are already much safer than they once were.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an industry-financed research group, 25,428 passenger vehicle occupants were killed in car and light-truck crashes in 2008, a 17 percent reduction from 1975. A majority of those fatal accidents, 52 percent, resulted from front crashes, but 28 percent — about 7,000 deaths — were from side impacts.

More rigorous testing standards could further reduce fatalities — and help consumers sort out which cars are the safest. "

Claim: Cars are already much safer then they once were. More rigorous testing standards could further reduce fatalities and help consumers sort out the safest cars.
Evidence: the second paragraph.