The article introduces the topic of the crewless ship. More specifically, the writer discusses how a crewless ship has a beneficial impact on the sailors.

The article introduces the topic of the crewless ship. More specifically, the writer discusses how a crewless ship has a beneficial impact on the sailors. The lecturer in the listening passage disagrees. He believes that there are flaws in the author’s ideas and attacks each of the claims made in the reading. First, in the reading, the author begins by declaring that ship owners need to provide their employees with food, entertainment, and a place where they can sleep. All of these necessities cost the owner a lot. Thus, emitting the worker will increase the profit. The lecturer, however, disagrees. He states that every ship needs to have at least a minimum number of workers. Because if damage occurs somewhere on the ship they can immediately prevent the loss. Moreover, the author points out that unmanned ships are less striking to the pirates. Since they do not know how to manage the autonomic ships they can neither access the ship nor drive it. On the other hand, the speaker rebuts this argument. He mentions that there are people who can hack the ship and control the system even if they are at a distance. Finally, the text demonstrates that since most accidents emerge from human mistakes, this technique will diminish the possible accidents. In addition, when there is a problem on the ship, workers act slowly to handle it, hence it is another drawback for human workers. The lecturer challenges this idea by adding that while people can evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of the problem, computers solely think in a sensible manner. To sum up, both the writer and the professor hold conflicting views about crewless cargo ships. It is evident that they will have trouble finding common ground on this issue.