Soon technology will provide smart cars: cars that virtually drive 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 a poor 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. This ability will result in increased highway speeds. Today commuting by car can take hours a day. So the increased speed of smart cars will be a great benefit, welcomed by the 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 article discusses about smart cars which would be driven autonomously and the benefits that the human will achieve from this emerging technology. However, the professor in the lecture believes that mentioned benefits for this technology are not granted and that may not yield to these benefits and refutes each of them.
First, the article states that the smart cars decrease the accidents because of their accuracy and fast responses to events happening in the road. However, the professor claims that this technology would fail sometimes just like another most advanced technologies that fail time to time. Furthermore, since these cars will be traveling in a fast pace and move tightly near each other if an accident happens a lot of cars will have collide and pile up.
Second, the passage claims that this new technology will reduce the traffic and commuting time since the cars will be traveling faster and closely together because of their computer-controlled systems. Even though the lecturer agrees with the fact they are able to travel faster and more closely to each other but she claims that this fact eventually will urge more people to commute with cars and this public urge will cause the roads to be more crowded.
Third, the reading declares that the smart cars are less expensive since they are programed such that they travel strictly in the direct routes and so the maintenance cost will be reduced. In the lecture, it is stated that these cars will not be cheap and they have new expenses. The professor states that since they use more technological devices their costs will be higher than regular car. They also have lots of sensors around them to detect the roads and obstacles, hence, these new equipment will introduce other expenses will cost more for their owners.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 205, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'sometimes' is usually put before the verb 'fail'.
Suggestion: sometimes fail
...essor claims that this technology would fail sometimes just like another most advanced technol...
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Line 3, column 432, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'collided'.
Suggestion: collided
...ccident happens a lot of cars will have collide and pile up. Second, the passage clai...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1504.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 301.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99667774086 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42935982585 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504983388704 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 460.8 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 41.7982165779 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.727272727 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3636363636 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.63636363636 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.218455365371 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0967801870129 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0343142250858 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1403504163 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0302740469676 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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