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.
The reading passage and the lecture are both about smart cars. The author of the article claims that driverless vehicles will offer safer, quicker and less expensive commuting for people. However, the lecturer casts doubt on those claims. She states that computerized cars will nit be able to totally achieve a hundred percent safety, high speeds and cost-saving alternatives.
First of all, the reading proposes that thanks to a wide variety of sensors, smart vehicles will overcome road mistakes which cost injuries and sometimes even human lives. By having computers control braking and turning, collisions could be avoided and more accidents could be prevented. The lecturer, On the other hand, rebuts this argument. She mentions that given that cars on auto-pilot will be driving on high speeds while packed very close to each other, accidents will be far more worse than today because it could involve a large number of cars.
Second, the author asserts that coordinating cars very close to each other at high speed will be of great benefit because traffic problems will practically disappear and commuting time will decrease. This point is strongly challenged by the lecturer. She indicates that more people will decide to drive the easily controlled smart cars. This, in turn, will offset any gained benefits in decreasing commuting time as additional cars will be on the road causing congestion.
Lastly, the author holds that smart cars will help save money for drivers by making repair and replacement much less costly. In contrast, the lecturer explains that the global positioning service which is vital for driverless cars is not affordable. In addition, cutting-edge sensors are highly expensive and will cancel out any expected savings made on repair and replacement which in and of themselves more costly than traditional car repairs
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 484, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'worse' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: worse
...se to each other, accidents will be far more worse than today because it could involve a l...
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Line 5, column 531, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...rse than today because it could involve a large number of cars. Second, the author asserts ...
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Line 13, column 445, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...more costly than traditional car repairs
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, lastly, second, so, while, in addition, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1573.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 296.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31418918919 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55248056779 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587837837838 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6930735486 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.866666667 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7333333333 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 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: 0.200800551252 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0661084725576 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0420289014832 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124725737121 0.162205337803 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0247817863915 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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