ChatGPT Driving a Car

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

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 course. So the men rented the Corolla and didn't ment