Soon technology will provide smart cars that virtually drives 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 apoor 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. Today commuting by car can take hours a day. So the increased speed of smart cars will be a great benefit, welcomed by 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.
Narrator:
Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.
Professor:
Even if computerized smart cars meet all the technological expectations set for them, it’s not clear that they’d produce the benefits some have predicted.
Smart cars will still get into some accidents. After all, even the most technologically advanced devices fail occasionally. And since the smart car technology will allow cars to be more tightly packed together on the roads, these accidents will be pileups that involve many more cars and so be much worse than accidents that occur today. Overall, there is little reason to believe that smart cars will save lives or reduce the number of injuries in automobile accidents.
Second, let’s talk about the potential to increase highway speeds and therefore decrease commuting time. Well, history has consistently shown that when some driving convenience is introduced, more and more people decide to drive because they expect an easier driving experience. But then the increased number of drivers in the case of smart cars of the future would not decrease commuting time. This is because the traffic congestion caused by the additional cars on the road would not allow the drivers to take advantage of the smart cars’ potential for higher speeds.
And finally, it’s not reasonable to expect that smart cars will save drivers money. The global positioning technology required to direct smart cars to their desired destinations is very expensive, and smart cars will need other costly technologies too, such as sensors that control how far a smart car stays behind the car in front of it. Moreover, the advanced technology of smart cars will make repairs to them more expensive than repairs on conventional automobiles. These new expenses will more than offset the expected savings on the repair and replacement of traditional mechanical car parts.
Both author and lecture deal with the concept of smart cars. Whilst, the author thinks that the use of computer in cars would make them more beneficial for specific three reasons. The lecturer opposes the each claims made by author. In her opinion,smart cars would not be as much beneficial as it is claimed to be in the article.
First of all, writer claimed that smart cars will save lives by decreasing number of accidents. furthermore, it is stated in article that smart cars will be provided with diverse kind of sensors, automatic braking controls etc: preventing the cars from obstacles in the pathway, which could not be possible for human to do. In contrast, The lecturer stated that even the highly specialized and techno-friendly equipment also have accidents occasionally, So, it is impossible for smart cars to completely control accident but somehow it reduces the degree of accident. Additionally, she says that the large no of the smart cars will be there in the road,so, it cannot get free from accidents on such crowded situation.
Secondly, Author mentions that; use of smart cars will solve the issues of traffic and they will completely dissappear. In top of that, it adds that such computer controlled smart cars can run closely and even at high speeds. Thereby, increasing highway speeds and reducing commuting hours required for the day. However, the lecturer calls this argument into question by saying that such convenient cars will attract more people towards them, leading to large no of drivers with smart cars. So, If the number will increase than the people would not be able to use the technology provided by cars and will be stuck in the traffic. Further, He remarks that the problem of the traffic would be same.
Finally, The author asserts that it would be reasonable to use smart cars as it would reduce the cost of driving. He pointed out that the tires, brakes etc., of the smart cars are expensive and well qualified, so, it would last long than normal auto-mobiles and reduce the cost of repair and maintenance. However, Lecturer opposes and hold that it has highly techno friendly system such as GPS, sensors etc., which are very expensive than normal automobiles. So, overall cost of such cars would be very much higher than entire repair and maintenance cost of today's automobiles.
Coming to end, both author and lecturer hold conflicting views on the smart-cars and its benefits
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, in contrast, kind of, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 5.04856512141 376% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2030.0 1373.03311258 148% => OK
No of words: 409.0 270.72406181 151% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96332518337 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57993830991 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496332518337 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 597.6 419.366225166 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6519890986 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.842105263 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5263157895 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52631578947 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223338097414 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.078345790995 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0454795283183 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132214874208 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052392394703 0.0443174109184 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 63.6247240618 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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