Q1 - In constructing a self-driving robotic car

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Question Type:
Inference (logical completion)

Stimulus Breakdown:
Fish that swim in schools and cars both face the problems of crashes and congestion. Engineers are trying to design robotic cars that will avoid these problems. Since the principles fish use to solve this problem are apparently more effective than those used by human drivers, ......

Answer Anticipation:
…. Engineers might be able to borrow some of the principles fish use and adapt them to robotic cars.

The biggest danger on these questions is answer choices that are in the realm of where we were headed but are much too strongly worded.

Correct Answer:
D

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) REQUIRES? Way too strong.

(B) The BEST drivers? Too strong.

(C) ALWAYS advisable? Too strong.

(D) YES, we like moderate wording like "it could help".

(E) Maybe, but that's too speculative. If we believed (E), then we'd also believe (D), because clearly the navigational principles of fish helped engineers if the resulting car is better than a human driver.

Takeaway/Pattern: With Logical Completion, we usually have a pretty decent sense of where the conversation is headed They just write wrong answers that drive too far and go off a cliff. Look for a moderately worded synthesis.

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