The reading and the lecture are both about driverless cars. However, while the author states that there are many advantages to replacing traditional driving cars with driverless cars, the lecturer suggests that the benefits mentioned are not entirely true. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points provided in the reading by noting three remarks.
Firstly, the reading affirms that driverless cars will eliminate the majority of the hassles and dangers associated with traditional driving, such as texting, not noticing the front car has slowed down, not stopping at the stop signs, and a variety of other factors. Nevertheless, the lecturer disputes this point. He says that even if all cars became driverless, there would still be dangers since technology is imperfect and lacks the human mind to completely avoid all problems.
Secondly, the author discusses how it will decrease driving time and allow commutes to be shorter. In the passage, it is mentioned how the technology will be able to calculate the exact speed, traffic, and other conditions required to arrive promptly at a consistent, efficient rate, which cannot be met by drivers. The author affirms that drivers constantly pull the brake and gas pedals more than needed. Nonetheless, the lecturer argues that technology would not be able to predict all the possibilities, such as a sudden tree crash or a human crossing the road. Furthermore, he reports that there are a number of accidents related to driverless cars.
Lastly, the text claims that the driver can focus their attention on something more important or entertaining, for example, checking their email, listening to podcasts, and eating. On the other hand, the professor believes that the driver would still need to focus their full attention on the road so that they can be alerted and mentally prepared for any situation that cannot be resolved by the vehicle.
To sum up, although the reading and the lecture are both about driverless cars, they conclude with different details. However, in the end, the three main points made in the discussion are effectively challenged by the lecturer, proving driverless cars are not any better than traditional driving.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, lastly, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, still, while, for example, such as, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1854.0 1373.03311258 135% => OK
No of words: 354.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23728813559 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69006065253 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539548022599 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 554.4 419.366225166 132% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.521125095 49.2860985944 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.6 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8666666667 7.06452816374 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147309567673 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0504045549907 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0443119250558 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0889625165906 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0517193051622 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => 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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