My Toefl Essay Practice about Smart Cars The reading and the lecturer are both about smarts cars which are cars without human driver. The author of the reading believes smart cars have many benefits to human lives for a few reasons. The lecturer challenges the statements made by the author. She is of the opinion that none of these reasons are accurate. First of all, the author suggest that these new technology cars will decrease accidents and also protect many lives from dying. It is mentioned that smart cars will detect the cars around itself and organize it`s movement regarding to the other cars movement, so it will prevent collisions. The argument is challenged by the lecturer. She says that still there is change to computers can fail, and smarts cars accident would be more dangerous than ordinary cars` accident. Furthermore, she argues that even the rate of accident decrease, the rate of death people in the smart cars accident will be more than normal cars crashes. Secondly, the writer contends that traffic jam will be reduced by smart cars. The article notes that these new technological cars can adjust their each other`s direction and speed, and it will result with less traffic problems. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by assertion that many untrained people will decide to drive with new technological innovation. She elaborates on this by mentioning that smarts cars will not decrease cars` population, because new technology make easier to driver there will be more cars on the roads. Finally, it is stated in the article that, computer-based cars will reduce the amount of cost of driving. The author establishes that smarts cars have the ability to find shortest way in the shortest time, it will prevent to spend more money to cars problems. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that building technology to find direct road for cars is more expensive than normal driving. She puts forth the idea that the cost of smart cars problems such as repairing, changing tools of cars, etc. will be more higher than traditional cars` costs.