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.
Both the reading and the lecture discuss about self driving or the autonomous cars. The reading passage tell us the advantages of self driving car and the lecture disagrees with the stand.
First, The lecture(passage) talks about the safety(safety) of the autonomous car which is designed by humans. And human make errors so there can be errors in the programming of the car also. However the passage contradicts that car can be driven without any human inputs.
Second, The professor talks about the news article published. It mentioned that the car which was driven 700000 miles without accident as per the passage, has(had) hit another car in last month.
Next, the article states that the driverless cars will make less pollution as it will be programmed to start and stop the engine with less emissions during traffics. But on the other hand the lecturer says that pollution will increase because more people will buy the car, even though they dont know to drive the car or even dont have any driving license. There will be no age restriction to drive the car so indirectly the number of car buyers will be increased which will lead to more pollution than before.
Finally, The time factor. Passage states that people will save time instead of drive the car and do some other work, like watching video or reading. But the Professor tells that people have the whole day to use their time. And some people love driving and also listening to radio or by talking.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 130, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eading passage tell us the advantages of self driving car and the lecture disagre...
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Line 2, column 181, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...be errors in the programming of the car also. However the passage contradicts that c...
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Line 2, column 187, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ors in the programming of the car also. However the passage contradicts that car can be...
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Line 4, column 135, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun emissions is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ammed to start and stop the engine with less emissions during traffics. But on the o...
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Line 4, column 290, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ople will buy the car, even though they dont know to drive the car or even dont have...
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Line 4, column 325, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...they dont know to drive the car or even dont have any driving license. There will be...
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Line 5, column 295, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... also listening to radio or by talking.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, second, so, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1212.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79051383399 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34336356089 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.529644268775 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 371.7 419.366225166 89% => 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: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.1508980208 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.5714285714 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0714285714 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64285714286 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
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: 0.263496745703 0.272083759551 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0990359768842 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481635791419 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154720405379 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0443345429085 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.