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 reading passage elucidates the benefits of smart cars. It corroborates this postulation with three well-founded claims. The speaker, however, is not convinced, and goes on to challenge each of these hypotheses as explained below.
First, to counter the assertion of preventing accidents, she emphasizes on the possibility of failure of even the most technologically advanced mechanisms. Considering the fact that technology is more tightly packed in smart cars, it shall lead to piling up of accidents, involving a catastrophic clash of other cars, eventually leading to a disaster.
Second, the passage professes confidence in the notion of disappearing traffic problems in the case of smart cars, thanks to computer-controlled technologies. The speaker is quick to refute this claim as she says that as more and more individuals would be lured by the benefits, there would be more purchases of the cars. An increase in drivers shall not allow them to take advantage of the technology and would not result in an increase in speed.
Finally, the speaker ridicules the claims of cost-effectiveness of a smart car. She explains that costs involving advanced technology like remote sensing shall lead to rise in expenses. Moreover, repairs would be much more expensive than traditional automobiles.
The text and lecture, though diametrically opposite in their views, discuss pertinent ideas relating to the introduction of smart cars.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, moreover, second, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1226.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.49775784753 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.29187690815 2.5805825403 128% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.587443946188 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 373.5 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0524639257 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.166666667 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5833333333 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.91666666667 7.06452816374 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.127023967662 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0441789877093 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.03772710806 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0619384904332 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0288513980102 0.0443174109184 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.2367328918 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.49 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.