Respectful Balance - edit

[dukealien]

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My one year-old Korean
car will steer itself
using LIDAR vision
until it loses sight of lanes
at which point it cries urgently
for both my hands
upon its wheel.

So unlike a Tesla
in full automation mode
there’s a certain diffidence
and modesty to its attainments
which I find both becoming
and, like its need for me,
reassuring.

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Thanks to both commenters!  I've taken advantage of most of @brynwawr1's suggestions.  Glad this was enjoyed.

FWIW, this originally had two or three additional stanzas between the remaining two... which didn't add anything, really.  Though I like the idea of car as child (and incorporated it, slightly, in S.1), the point I was trying to make in the original last two lines was that it's nice the car recognizes it needs me as much as I need it.  After all, with its strong electronic steering it could easily smack us both into a bridge abutment at seventy per; good, then, that it lets me know not only that I'm ultimately in charge, but that it knows when to ask for help instead of just following its best guess or, worse, taking a chance.

I don't fancy LLMs as auto-drive software.  They make things up; I visualize one virtually painting a tunnel entrance on a wall like the coyote in front of the roadrunner.  Then trying to drive through it.