Question

source: joseph coughlin and luke yoquinto, \the long road home.\ published in slate may 2015. with a mature highway ecosystem consisting almost entirely of autonomous cars, you could leave your picturesque home in bennington, vermont, at 7:30 a.m. in order to walk through your office door in midtown manhattan at 9. student text: imagine if we had a mature highway ecosystem that mainly consisted of autonomous cars. people could leave their picturesque homes in bennington, vermont, and walk through their office doors in manhattan, new york, an hour and a half later. is the student text plagiarized? no, it is not plagiarized. yes, because it is an insufficient paraphrase. yes, because it fails to cite the source.

Explanation:

The student text closely mirrors the original source but fails to cite it, which is considered plagiarism regardless of whether it is a sufficient paraphrase or not.

Answer:

Yes, because it fails to cite the source.