The lecturer refutes the reading that shows the benefits of self-driving cars, examining those advantages.
First, the lecturer doubts the safety of autonomous cars because the computer system of the cars cannot avoid human errors. Since the systems are designed by humans, he emphasizes the self-driving cars might cause accidents due to technical faults made by humans. Although the reading highlights that a driverless vehicle has driven for over 700,000 miles kilometers without an accident, he denies the safety of the car by introducing the accident the car crashed last month.
Second, the lecturer assumes that self-driving vehicles increase dependence on cars because they remove age restrictions for driving. While the reading introduces autonomous cars can reduce pollution by improving the fuel efficiencies of cars, he suggests that self-driving cars allow more people including the young and the elderly to use cars. As a result, he reveals that autonomous vehicles will deteriorate the environment, suggesting the increase in the number of cars will raise the pollution levels.
Third, the lecturer expects that the people would not benefit from the extra time that driverless cars provide. The reading claims that people can maximize their free time because autonomous cars obviate the need for driving. However, he considers driving as a diversion from the usual routine like work, which is valuable for a change of pace through listening to music and radio talk. Despite the extra time the autonomous vehicles offer, the people would not optimize the time by wasting their time or spending more time on what they’ve already spent the most time on.
In conclusion, the lecturer disputes the reading by denying three advantages of driverless cars.
- TPO 12 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to have a broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 73
- TPO 18 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 73
- Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed by human activity Others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live What is your opinion 73
- do you agree or disagree with the following statement television advertisement directed toward young children should not be allowed Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 81
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, second, third, while, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 10.4613686534 19% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1495.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39711191336 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.684289711 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5559566787 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3315216963 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.583333333 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0833333333 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.362209882006 0.272083759551 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147149422141 0.0996497079465 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126563540742 0.0662205650399 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173885607232 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.154865604125 0.0443174109184 349% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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