Adrian Chiles (Driverless vehicles are taking us on a street to nowhere, 10 September) desires to know who requested for driverless vehicles. I did. I’ve a watch situation known as nystagmus and can by no means be capable to drive except a “tech-bro willy-waver”, or anybody else, finds a treatment. Thankfully, not each driver is as reckless as those Chiles despairs of, and probably the most cautious of all might not even be human.
Waymo, Google’s sister firm, says its vehicles have far fewer crashes inflicting accidents than human drivers. In July, the US Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security discovered that its vehicles had 68% fewer crashes per mile than human drivers.
Anybody desirous to take a swipe at tech-bro tradition may choose a greater goal than a product that may save lives and provides folks like me independence. Chiles says we will’t be associates if driverless vehicles are close to my high 10 wishlist. Properly, I can’t wait to get into one.
Lars Janssen
Haywards Heath, West Sussex
My 18-year-old daughter is severely disabled, won’t ever reside independently and is solely reliant on the help of others. To name the event of driverless vehicles the “willy-waving” of tech bros maybe comes from a place of being able-bodied.
Driverless vehicles open up my daughter’s world with out the dangers related along with her vulnerability. Augmented-reality glasses rework disabled folks’s lives. An iPad has taught my daughter the best way to maintain her hand nonetheless to have the ability to level.
Richard Connell
Richmond, London
Don’t be too fast to sentence driverless vehicles. They might be the saviour of nation pubs. There are such a lot of fantastic boozers round the place I reside, however you both need to drive to them and have one pint, which isn’t actually definitely worth the go to, or faff about getting an costly taxi. Driverless vehicles? Convey ’em on!
Michael Fuller
Ampthill, Bedfordshire
