Soon technology will provide smart cars that virtually drives 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 apoor 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. Today commuting by car can take hours a day. So the increased speed of smart cars will be a great benefit, welcomed by 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 positive sides of smart cars- its benefits and superior technological sophistications. However, the professor in the lecture, has some very candid counterlogics which expose the negative sides of smart cars. The following paragraphs of this essay shall dive deep into the differences of the two narratives.
To start with, the reading passage states that smart cars shall be monumental in preventing accidents and saving lives- all thanks to the wide array of sensors that they shall be equipped with. As a result, there shall be lesser collisions than the present day. The lecturer very logically counters this point of view by bringing to our attention that even highly sophisticated technologies are liable to failures. She predicts more gruesome accidents involving smart cars as more of them would be packed on raods, leading to piling up of these cars in case of a mishap. Hence, possibility of accidents shall persist even with technological upgradation.
Secondly, the reading passage seems to provide a solution to traffic problems with the introduction of smart cars. It goes on to say that the computer monitored cars will be capable of following each other even at higher speeds. The speaker is quick enough to point out the fallacies of this argument. She draws evidence from history and states that with the advent of better driving facilites, users have only gone up. As a result, there would likely be more people driving cars leading to subsequent traffic snug. Thus, commuting time is unlikely to decrease.
Finally, the passage make note of reduction in driving costs due to higher longeivity of expensive items like brakes, tires and transmissions. The professor is skeptical regarding this prediction as she argues that it shall be very expensive to deliver such cars from the place of manufacture. More importantly, the presence of advanced technologies would mean higher cost of repairs, if any, for smart cars.
Thus, from the passage and the lecture, it is easily understandable that the author and the speaker has diametrically opposite views on the cost and benefits of smart cars. Hence, they would have difficulty in settling for a common ground in this aspect.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, hence, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, as a result, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 30.3222958057 195% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1879.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 361.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20498614958 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82907001907 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537396121884 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 580.5 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2028206121 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8947368421 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94736842105 7.06452816374 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.197068574626 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0574350571175 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530792584663 0.0662205650399 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103582217111 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0516136145169 0.0443174109184 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 63.6247240618 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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