In assessing the deserves of driverless taxis (Driverless taxis from Waymo might be on London’s roads subsequent 12 months, US agency publicizes, 15 October), passengers ought to contemplate the cautions offered in Christian Wolmar’s e-book Driverless Automobiles: On a Street to Nowhere. Adherence to Isaac Asimov’s first regulation of robotics (“A robotic could not injure a human being”) requires the taxi to cease if an individual steps in entrance of it. Freeway theft or worse could also be facilitated.
Prof Clive Coen
King’s Faculty London
Your article (Parliamentary employees of color earn £2,000 lower than white colleagues, examine suggests, 12 October) says that disabled staff earn £646 much less a 12 months “than able-bodied colleagues”. Disabilities are available many kinds, not all bodily. A few of us are ready‑bodied and disabled.
Sara L Uckelman
Durham
Adrian Chiles’s column on the Stourbridge Shuttle (16 October) doesn’t point out its most vital function: George the station cat, recognized to his social media followers as a supply of knowledge, a psychological well being advocate and a photogenic delight. He additionally helps to lift cash for a variety of causes.
Anne Cowper
Bishopston, Swansea
I’m in settlement with Adrian Chiles’s mum (I went to Marina Abramović’s erotic, express new artwork present – and there was an terrible lot to absorb, 15 October).
Helen Evans
Ruthin, Denbighshire
Has the Guardian ever printed a letter by a extra appropriately named correspondent than Frank Roper on climbing (13 October)?
Gary McGregor
Garvald, East Lothian
