In assessing the deserves of driverless taxis (Driverless taxis from Waymo shall be on London’s roads subsequent yr, US agency broadcasts, 15 October), passengers ought to think about the cautions introduced in Christian Wolmar’s e book Driverless Automobiles: On a Street to Nowhere. Adherence to Isaac Asimov’s first legislation of robotics (“A robotic might 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 workers of color earn £2,000 lower than white colleagues, research suggests, 12 October) says that disabled workers earn £646 much less a yr “than able-bodied colleagues”. Disabilities are available many types, 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 important characteristic: George the station cat, identified to his social media followers as a supply of knowledge, a psychological well being advocate and a photogenic delight. He additionally helps to boost cash for quite a lot of causes.
Anne Cowper
Bishopston, Swansea
I’m in settlement with Adrian Chiles’s mum (I went to Marina Abramović’s erotic, specific new artwork present – and there was an terrible lot to soak up, 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
