Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-13

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

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?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Student answer (Band 7.0)

The coming years will revolutionalise travelling, with many mobility corporations implementing driverless feature in their vehicles. Any vehicle, whether it is a car, a bus, or a truck will only need passengers to travel. I believe the disadvantages of driverless technology outweigh the advantages, because of higher chances of accidents of autonomous vehicles in uncertain situations, threat of loss of job to drivers and loss of the driving experience for the customer.

While there has been significant development in the field of autonomous driving in the past decades, there are some areas where a human will always outperform a machine. Autonomous vehicles run on past training experiences, and all the decisions made by these machines are based on the training data that was fed into them. But if an unknown situation arises, a machine is more likely to make mistakes than a human. This could cause significant risk to the passengers travelling in these driverless vehicles. For example, over the past years, there have been reportings of multiple accidents of autonomous vehicles causing serious injuries or deaths.

Driverless transportation will also eat the livelihood of people employed as drivers for buses, trucks and taxis. While human employees need salaries, insurance and holidays, machines will only have maintanence costs. Organisations would prefer automatic transportation since it would cost less money to the company compared to hiring human drivers. Many drivers have raised concerns regarding autonomous vehicles taking away their jobs in the future.

Personal vehicles like cars and bikes are not only purchased for travelling purposes, but for leisure purposes as well. Many people enjoy driving bikes and cars, and often go on long trips in order to drive their vehicles for long durations. Autonomous vehicles will take away this experience from car owners. Many car owners have said that they will never purchase autonomous vehicle because they enjoy driving their cars.

Autonomous driving will change travelling significantly, but will pose risk to passengers in certain situations. Also, it will negatively impact people employed in the profession of driving, and people wanting to enjoy the experience of driving a car.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

Your position is clear from the introduction: you believe the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and the conclusion consistently restates this view. You address the question with three relevant reasons—safety risks, drivers’ employment, and the loss of enjoyment for people who like driving—and the accident example helps make the safety concern concrete. This is a solid response, but the reasons are not developed equally. The employment paragraph explains why companies might prefer automation, yet it could explore the scale or consequences of job losses. The leisure point is relevant but relies on general claims about car owners rather than a specific example or fuller explanation. Developing these points and weighing them more explicitly against potential benefits would make the argument more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The essay is organised clearly, with an introduction, three body paragraphs that each focus on a distinct disadvantage, and a conclusion that brings the main concerns together. The progression from safety to employment and then personal enjoyment is easy to follow. You also use linking expressions such as “While,” “For example,” and “Also” to signal relationships between ideas. At times, however, connections are somewhat formulaic, and the conclusion mainly repeats the body points rather than synthesising the argument. The opening sentence of the final paragraph also shifts from the disadvantages to a broad statement about change without clearly linking that change to your overall comparison. More varied transitions and a brief comparison with the benefits would strengthen the progression further.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use a relevant range of topic vocabulary, including “autonomous driving,” “training data,” “livelihood,” and “maintenance costs,” which allows you to discuss technology, employment, and personal choice. Some less common expressions are attempted, but several choices or forms are inaccurate or unnatural: “revolutionalise travelling,” “implementing driverless feature,” and “reportings of multiple accidents.” “Automatic transportation” is also less precise than “driverless transport” in this context. These slips do not prevent the reader from understanding your argument, but they limit the naturalness and precision of the vocabulary. Aim for accurate collocations and check spelling and word forms, while retaining the useful topic-specific language you already use.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 7.0

You demonstrate a useful mix of simple and complex sentence forms, including subordinate clauses such as “While there has been significant development…” and conditional phrasing in “if an unknown situation arises.” Many sentences are clear and well controlled, and punctuation generally supports the meaning. A few grammatical issues remain. In “Any vehicle, whether it is a car, a bus, or a truck will…,” the parenthetical phrase needs commas around it. “Many car owners have said that they will never purchase autonomous vehicle” is missing an article before the singular count noun. The sentence beginning “Autonomous vehicles run on past training experiences” also has a slightly awkward structure that could be made clearer. More consistent article use and careful punctuation would improve accuracy while preserving your range.

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