Uh Oh, ChatGPT Can Drive a Car (And Grok Crashed Immediately)

Uh Oh, ChatGPT Can Drive a Car (And Grok Crashed Immediately)

Researchers let four AI agents loose on a parking lot course and gave them complete control over throttle, brakes, and steering. Guess what happened next.

GPT-6 is a Better Driver than Grok & Claude But Still Ain’t Waymo

Three researchers equipped a rented Toyota Corolla to the world's most advanced language models and asked them to drive it through a parking-lot cone course. The results, and the reasons behind them, say a lot about where physical AI stands. The Corolla moved in short, deliberate lurches, and it was moving at roughly the speed

ChatGPT Driving a Car

404 Media reports on a project called DrivingBench, which investigates if an LLM can drive a real world car. Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, and Tobias Gessler prompted ChatGPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Grok 4.6 to drive a real Toyota Corolla around a parking lot in San Francisco.The AIs controlled the steering, brakes, and accelerator to navigate a course of cones. You can read their prompts and code here.There were risks to the car, of co…