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 reading and the audio prompt are both about the advantages and disadvantages of driverless or self-driving cars respectively. The author of the reading prompt feels that driverless cars will benefit the humans in a lot of ways, thereby having a positive impact on our driving experience. Whereas the author of the audio prompt feels that there are many flaws in driverless cars as well.
To start with, the author of the reading prompt feels that the introduction of self-driving cars will reduce the risk of accidents as accidents are mostly caused by human error. However, the author of the audio prompt challenges this opinion. He claims that as the mechanisms of driverless cars are designed by humans, therefore human error can also play a big role in designing these cars. Furthermore, to support his position, the author of the reading prompt claims that the self-driving cars have driven more than 700,000 miles without any accident. To prove this wrong, the author of the audio prompt gives an example of the accident caused by a self-driving car last month which created headlines.
Secondly, the author of the reading prompt suggests that these cars are good for environment, reduce pollution as they are more efficent. The author of the audio prompt, however rebuts this by claiming that as these cars do not cause pollution, more people will be encouraged to drive these cars which will increase the population on the roads, thereby giving rise to pollution in other ways. Also, age restrictions will not be enforced for driving these cars, which will further increase the number of people driving it.
Lastly, the author of the reading prompt claims that the autonomous cars will reduce passengers time as people can do their office work, read or watch videos while going to work. To counter this, the author of the audio prompt feels that people drive as they find it relaxing. Therefore, people think of driving as a welcoming distraction rather than a burden, so devoting this time also to work will not be a good idea.
Thus, the author of the reading prompt and audio prompt have contrasting views about self-driving cars.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, while, to start with
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: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1798.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 360.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99444444444 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57288208479 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 530.1 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0940057703 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.866666667 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236441253295 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109724149238 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0607765510943 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156618339716 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0532537982363 0.0443174109184 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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