Essay topics:
These days, if you pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV or radio, you may hear or read about the advantages of driverless cars, also called self-driving or autonomous
cars. The technology is simple to understand: using sensors and computers, these cars can drive without input from a human. This might sound like science fiction, but
such vehicles are already on our roads and they will have a positive impact on our driving experience.
Traffic accidents are a leading cause of injuries and fatalities in the United States, and studies show that most crashes are caused by human error. The software that
runs driverless cars is not capable of making mistakes. As a result, such vehicles will be much safer. One technology company has a self-driving car that has driven for
over 700,000 miles – over one million kilometers – without an accident: a better record than all but the best human drivers.
In addition, self-driving vehicles are good for the environment because they drive more efficiently. On a typical journey within a city, drivers deal with urban traffic by
stopping and starting their engines repeatedly. This type of driving means engines work less efficiently and this causes a lot of pollution. Driverless cars, on the other
hand, can communicate with other vehicles, which will reduce traffic problems. Autonomous cars will be able to start and stop their engines less often and travel at
higher speeds.
Finally, autonomous cars will give passengers time. Instead of having to focus on driving, human occupants can focus on other things. The average time for
commuting to and from work in the United States is about thirty minutes each way. Instead of using this time to focus on the road, passengers in driverless cars can
read, watch videos or catch up on work.
The article and the lecture both deal with the idea of having self-driving cars all over the world. Whilst the author thinks that it would help the driver in 3 ways. The lecturer opposes the author's claim. In his opinion, these reasons do not hold the water.
First, the author claims that driverless cars would be safe to drive. Furthermore, it is stated that a self-driving car has been driven for 700000 miles without any accidents. In contrast, the lecturer argues that last month the car hit another car. Additionally, as the software driving the car is made by humans, it can have errors as all other technologies.
Secondly, the author mentions that driverless cars are efficient in using fuel. On top of that, he adds that cars could converse with other cars and thus can avoid traffics. However, the lecturer calls this argument into question. He says that as there won't be any need for a licence to be in a car, more people, even kids would have their own cars. Furthermore, he remakes that it would just increase the pollution instead.
Finally, the writer asserts that this would help people to have more time to do other work, like reading or watching videos. Further, he adds that the time in travelling can be used to do something more valuable. As opposed, the lecturer highlights that people nowadays enjoying driving. In addition, he says they just relax by listening to the radio or music while driving. Moreover, this is the only time they don't work or have any responsibility to do.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 413, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...g. Moreover, this is the only time they dont work or have any responsibility to do. ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, in addition, in contrast, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1253.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78244274809 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51693466024 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580152671756 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 371.7 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 22.2689092905 49.2860985944 45% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 69.6111111111 110.228320801 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.5555555556 21.698381199 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.83333333333 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.158432360544 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525292872782 0.0996497079465 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0467046750167 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10353977133 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0547389000824 0.0443174109184 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.4 13.3589403974 63% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 74.19 53.8541721854 138% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 11.0289183223 58% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.85 12.2367328918 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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