Soon technology will provide smart cars: cars that virtually drive themselves. A computer in the car determines the speed and route to the desired destination. The computer is in continuous contact with a global positioning system and other
technologies that will provide extremely accurate information about the location of the car, other cars on the road, congestion, accidents, and so forth. The human driver will be little more than a passenger. Smart cars promise to make driving safer, quicker, and less expensive.
First of all, smart cars will prevent many accidents, thereby saving lives. The cars will be equipped with a variety of sensors that very accurately detect cars and other obstacles in their path, and they will have automatic programs that control braking and turning to avoid collisions. Given the hundreds of accidents that occur on highways daily, it is clear that humans do a poor job of avoiding accidents and that computer control would be a great improvement.
Second, with the wide use of smart cars, traffic problems will practically disappear. These computer-controlled cars can follow each other closely, even at high speeds. This ability will result in increased highway speeds. Today commuting by car can take hours a day. So the increased speed of smart cars will be a great benefit, welcomed by the many people who commute by car.
Finally, smart cars will bring a reduction in the costs of driving. Because smart cars are programmed to drive the most direct routes, car owners will have to spend less money on repairs and replacement parts. Expensive items such as brakes, tires, and transmissions will last much longer in smart cars than in other cars.
The reading and lecture are both about the advantages and disadvantages of smart cars which can almost drive themselves. Although the author of the reading passage states three main points that the smart cars are safer, quicker, and less expensive, the lecturer repudiates these opinions. She casts doubts on the three main points made in the reading by providing three alternative peremptory reasons.
To begin with, even though the author mentions that smart cars will halt many accidents in the future and as a result, they can help save many lives, the lecturer rejects the idea. In fact, the lecturer claims that because of automatic programs which can control the braking and turning to avoid accidents, traffic jams can be extended. As a consequence, it expands the accident rates. As well as, in the status quo situation, there is not any relevant evidence showing the safety of the smart cars.
Secondly, in the reading passage, the author claims that using smart cars can tackle traffic problem effectively. In other words, the computer-controlled cars can follow other vehicles closely and it results in a high speed. However, the lecturer says that according to the historical evidence, by increasing speed people will tend to drive much more distances consequently, it will increase the traffic congestion. Indeed, in such bumper to bumper traffic, the speed takes a nosedive. Thus, the author’s idea is problematic.
Last but not least, on the one hand, the author posits that smart cars will reduce the costs of driving, on the other hand, the lecturer asseverates that the smart cars’ technologies are expensive as well as these cars need other side technologies such as sensors which can detect the distances with other cars. Furthermore, repairing such technologies imposes more costs on drivers rather than using the status quo technology. Therefore, the author’s opinion cannot be accepted.
To wrap things up, whereas the reading and lecture are both about the pros and cons of smart cars and the possibility of the cars’ future, the three main points made by the author are challenged by the lecturer effectively.
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...challenged by the lecturer effectively.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, furthermore, however, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, in fact, such as, as a result, as well as, in other words, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1814.0 1373.03311258 132% => OK
No of words: 348.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21264367816 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78141920126 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502873563218 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 545.4 419.366225166 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 2.5761589404 388% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.391101735 49.2860985944 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.375 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.625 7.06452816374 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221076020354 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.066686224776 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601504001851 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124935562715 0.162205337803 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345704066597 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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