Advantages and Disadvantages of Driverless Vehicles

In the future all cars, buses and trucks will be driverless. The only people travelling inside these vehicles will be passengers.

Do you think the advantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the disadvantages?

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Essay ideas: Advantages and Disadvantages of Driverless Vehicles

WhyThis is anAdvantages and disadvantages essay — it asks you to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of something.

SoWe split the ideas intoAdvantages(benefits)andDisadvantages(drawbacks).

Advantages

6 ideas

Disadvantages

9 ideas

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Response 01

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Essay · 279 words · 4 paragraphs · 11 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response presents a clear position with well-organised, developed arguments on both sides of the driverless vehicle debate. Its strongest aspect is the precise, wide-ranging vocabulary, while the main limitation is that supporting ideas sometimes remain briefly asserted rather than fully elaborated.

TR

Task Response

The response directly answers the question with a consistent position, covers multiple relevant advantages and disadvantages, and reaches a clear conclusion, though some points are supported more by assertion than extended development.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas progress logically through well-managed paragraphs with effective cohesive devices, although linking words such as 'Firstly' are used somewhat mechanically and a few points are under-expanded.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is flexible and precise, with natural use of less common items like 'contingent on', 'eclipse', and 'usher in', and only occasional slightly forced or imprecise word choices.

7.5
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A wide range of complex sentence structures is used with good control and frequent error-free sentences, with only minor slips in phrasing or article use that do not impede communication.

7.0

What to work on next

Extend key supporting points with concrete examples or deeper explanation so that each main idea is more fully developed rather than briefly stated.

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