driverless cars
The reading and lecture both are about driverless cars. The reading provides an opinion that driverless cars which use sensors and computers to commute, are the ultimate solution to three specific problems; traffic accidents, pollution and time wasted due to driving. The lecturer however thinks that even if driverless cars are a new innovation, they are far from perfect and don’t really solve any major issues.
The author of the passage believes that driverless cars are the solution to traffic accidents, one of the biggest problems in America. He gives an example of one of the technological companies, who own a driverless car which went on for 700,000 miles without an accident. The lecturer contrasts this by saying that the software developed for driverless cars is just as much prone to error, because after all it is designed by humans. With regards to the example stated in the passage, the lecturer mentions that the car which travelled 700,000 miles without an accident just met with one last month and it was all over the news raising doubt about the safety provided by driverless cars.
The author claims that driverless cars would communicate with each other and thus operate better in traffic; this would improve their engine efficiency and frequency of turning the engines on and off would reduce thus resulting in reduction of pollution. He goes on to say that, driverless cars would definitely be more environment friendly. The lecturer however thinks that if driverless cars come into existence, the need for licence would be eliminated resulting in more cars on the road thus causing more pollution.
Finally the author posits that with the use of driverless cars, people would have an option of spending about 30 mins(average time required for an American to commute to his workplace) doing something else other than driving like watching videos or talking to co passengers and being relaxed. The lecturer refutes this argument by saying that driving and listening to music is the idea of relaxing for most of the people and hence, if they get extra time during the commute, they would just end up wasting it or working which they need to do for the next 7-8 hours. Lecturer says there is no requirement of this extra time because most probably people won’t be able to catch a break during this time and hence it does not solve a big problem.
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Both the lecture and the…
Both the lecture and the article are about autonomous cars. In the article the author mentions the pros of self-driving cars while the lecture challenges the claims made by the author. The lecturer states the cons of self-driving cars
Firstly, the article says that self-driving vehicles drive without accidents and there was an example of a self-driving car that drove 700,000 miles without an accident. on the contrary the lecture states that the news were mentioning everywhere that the same car hit another car last month which completely contradicts what the article comforted the people of the things that will not happen
Secondly, the passage states that the pollution will reduce because there will be less traffic because the engines will stop less often and therefore the car would not need to keep using the fuel. But the lecture argues that because driving would not need the driver to have a driver's license anymore there will be more people in cars from all ages thus an increase in the pollution
Thirdly the author mentions that being in the car without driving will help save time to do different things on the other hand the lecture mentions that some people use driving as a way to relax and have fun so without driving the car would be another workspace or a place to waste your time .
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 269, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...llution and time wasted due to driving. The lecturer however thinks that even if dr...
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Line 1, column 332, Rule ID: NEW_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'innovation'.
Suggestion: innovation
...inks that even if driverless cars are a new innovation, they are far from perfect and don&apos...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...apos;t really solve any major issues. The author of the passage believes that dri...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...the road thus causing more pollution. Finally the author posits that with the use of ...
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Line 7, column 461, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...nd hence, if they get extra time during the commute, they would just end up wasting it or w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, hence, however, if, really, so, thus, after all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 30.3222958057 181% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1982.0 1373.03311258 144% => OK
No of words: 400.0 270.72406181 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.955 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53829544183 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 145.348785872 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5175 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 612.9 419.366225166 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.1059558656 49.2860985944 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.461538462 110.228320801 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.7692307692 21.698381199 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30769230769 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.387897893454 0.272083759551 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.185365394166 0.0996497079465 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102102750752 0.0662205650399 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268603622858 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136154578878 0.0443174109184 307% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.08 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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