More and more people are relying on the private car as their major means of transportation. Describe some of the problems overreliance on cars can cause, and suggest at least one possible solution.

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More and more people are relying on the private car as their major means of transportation. Describe some of the problems overreliance on cars can cause, and suggest at least one possible solution.

Over the last decades, the rapid innovation in both technology and science has generated considerable changes in the human life. In the past, people used to mainly commute by bicycles or motorcycles; yet, today personal cars have become the most popular type of transportation worldwide. The increasingly reliance on cars obviously result in various problems that strongly affect the society. This essay will discuss some of the main issues associated with the dependence on cars, and then suggest viable ways to tackle them.

First of all, the upward trend of traffic congestion, especially during the rush hours, is considered as the principle problem related to overuse of cars. Due to the convenience cars offer, more and more people enjoy owning cars as their main vehicles. As a result, traffic jams have become more serious during peak hours, and the commuters have to spend much longer time to drive between home and workplace and vice versa. For example, as reported, in Sydney, one of the most car-dependent cities, the traffic congestion causes the delay of around 11 minutes and 10 minutes in the morning and afternoon peak respectively. In addition, the fact that large number of cars operated also generates air pollution. The harmful gases emitted from vehicles, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide would not only affect the environment, but also do influence on people breathing the air. According to EPA in the US, the average annual carbon dioxide emission of a typical vehicle is about 4.7 metric tons, which may contribute majority part to the high level of air pollution around the world.

To solve the above problems, many approaches can be applied. Firstly, the government should encourage the residents to travel by public transportation, including trains, buses, trams, and subway, instead of driving their own cars. The authorities could use more budget to improve the public transport system or offer more discounts for those who regularly use public transportation. For instance, as the Singapore government invested lots of money to construct an efficient public transportation system, more and more citizens prefer travelling by bus and subway to driving cars, then the traffic congestion has dropped significantly. Another viable method is to impose higher taxes on cars. People may have to pay a large amount of money if they possess personal cars. Therefore, to reduce the costs, cars would be no longer an optimal choice for commuting.

In conclusion, it is clear that over-dependence on personal cars can cause serious traffic jams and air pollution. However, the issues would certainly be able to tackled by using the public transportation. So, I highly recommend the authorities and individuals should co-operate to solve the problems and make our lives better.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 8.3376753507 276% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2367.0 1615.20841683 147% => OK
No of words: 450.0 315.596192385 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.20363070211 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82584282194 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 176.041082164 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586666666667 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 733.5 506.74238477 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 10.0 2.52805611222 396% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8221781249 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.714285714 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.38095238095 7.06120827912 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226519476869 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.060877320505 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630693779122 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126128805509 0.151304729494 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0312566815858 0.056905535591 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 78.4519038076 177% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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