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 article and lecture talk about computer-controlled cars in the future. The passage proposes the use of the Global Positioning System, sensors and programming based controls. On the contrary, the speaker disagrees with the idea. The following mentions the points for the same.
Firstly, the passage portrays that fewer accidents will occur due to the use of sensors and computer-based programs. The whole system controls the operation of running and braking, maintaining gap among other cars and controlling speed. However, the speaker doubts about the benefits thereby support that closely travelling vehicles and failure in the system leads to more accidents.
Secondly, paragraph depicts that senors and programing in vehicles allow to control speed according to the traffic, thus resulting in lower-traffic jams. It ables to control cars even at higher speeds. On the other side, the speaker denies the idea and supports that comfort will lead to easy driving, resulting in more cars with more accidents and in the end, increased traffic jams.
Lastly, the passage avers that expenses in maintenance and repair will be lowered, thereby improving the life of the parts and machine. Favourably, the cost factor to the driver will be decreased than maintaining the traditionally driven cars. But the speaker refutes the idea that the installation cost of expensive programming, GPS and sensors will be increased. He also claims that the future cars will be closely assembled, therefore repair will be more than manual driven cars.
In conclusion, the reading article favours the idea of future cars due to easiness in driving, lesser accidents and with the proper controls. Whereas, the speaker denies due to high costs of both initial investment and later on in repair and replacement.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 74, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'controlling'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: controlling
...senors and programing in vehicles allow to control speed according to the traffic, thus re...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, whereas, in conclusion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1531.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39084507042 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80582991495 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514084507042 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 453.6 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.2545613818 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.6875 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.75 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.875 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18210977588 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0598578873885 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0432861758901 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105423122601 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0407301281606 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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