Respectful Balance - edit

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Respectful Balance


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.

original version;

My one year-old Korean
car will steer itself
using LIDAR cameras until
it loses track of lanes
at which point it calls
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, as it does with me,
reassuring.