The US should dispense with regulated speed limits on interstate highways, since drivers rarely abide by them.

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The US should dispense with regulated speed limits on interstate highways, since drivers rarely abide by them.

There is an opinion that some regulations should be abolished because people do not follow them. For example, some people claim that it is reasonable to get rid of any speed limits on interstate highways for the reason that a number of drivers still exceed them. However, thorough examination of the issue shows that there are more pros than cons in the situation when the regulation of speed is in force.

First of all, while some people may not follow existing regulation despite the penalties they are likely to face, there are still drivers who would rather limit their speed than pay a fine. Thus, the average speed on highways is lower than the one that would be when there is no regulation of speed. This makes the probability of traffic accidence lower and, thus, benefits the society. Refusing from speed limits, on the other hand, may facilitate abusive behavior by those drivers who now follow the existing rules.

Second, psychologists often claim that people’s behavior changes significantly in the absence of regulation. There is no guarantee that if the US government dispense with regulated speed limits drivers will not exceed these limits even more than they do now. If the size of the fine for high speed that is currently charged depends on how much you exceed speed limits, then in the absence of penalty drivers may start to exceed speed limits even more. In other words, the likelihood of paying a fine may prevent people from driving with extremely high speed.

Finally, the fact that there are some drivers that do not abide by the speed regulation in the US may be the result of the severity of the existing penalty. Probably, the problem is that fines are not high enough to prevent drivers from exceeding speed limits. In this case it would be more reasonable to analyze how increasing of the size of fine could contribute to the decrease of the average speed on interstate highways.

There are a number of studies showing strong positive correlation between the level of speed on the roads and the number of traffic accidence. If existing regulation does not allow to tackle the problem it does not mean that other instruments should not be developed and implemented. It would be reasonable to consider international experience and best practice, in particular, measures implemented by other countries that helped to solve the problem.

To sum up, there are strong arguments in favor of leaving and modernizing the existing regulation in the United States. Exceeding speed limits is a big problem that should be tackled to avoid an increase in traffic accidence. Leaving the problem as it is may result in significant economic and social consequences.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 182, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'tackling'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: tackling
.... If existing regulation does not allow to tackle the problem it does not mean that other...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, still, then, thus, while, for example, in particular, first of all, in other words, to sum up, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2251.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 452.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98008849558 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63186476751 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.440265486726 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 709.2 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.5839753673 60.3974514979 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 112.55 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15 5.21951772744 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31533225999 0.243740707755 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0940022050789 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0741732501891 0.0758088955206 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163724679184 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0674959867203 0.0667264976115 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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