In assessing the deserves of driverless taxis (Driverless taxis from Waymo will likely be on London’s roads subsequent yr, US agency publicizes, 15 October), passengers ought to contemplate the cautions offered in Christian Wolmar’s e book Driverless Automobiles: On a Highway to Nowhere. Adherence to Isaac Asimov’s first regulation 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 varieties, not all bodily. A few of us are in a position‑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, recognized 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 numerous 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 revealed a letter by a extra appropriately named correspondent than Frank Roper on climbing (13 October)?
Gary McGregor
Garvald, East Lothian
