NEWS · MODELS · #1699
Engineers used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to drive a Toyota Corolla to In‑N‑Out
Three engineers (Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, Tobias Gessler) linked a laptop chat to cameras and the Corolla’s power steering and asked OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra to navigate a 2024 Toyota Corolla to an In‑N‑Out drive‑thru; a safety driver kept a foot over the brake. The team also developed a simple DrivingBench parking-course benchmark (only Astra completed it, and slowly), and they tested other models (SpaceXAI’s Grok, Anthropic) during the experiments.
KEY POINTS
- Three engineers (Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, Tobias Gessler) linked a laptop chat to cameras and the Corolla’s power steering and asked OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra to navigate a 2024 Toyota Corolla to an In‑N‑Out drive‑thru; a safety driver kept a foot over the brake.
- The team also developed a simple DrivingBench parking-course benchmark (only Astra completed it, and slowly), and they tested other models (SpaceXAI’s Grok, Anthropic) during the experiments.
- This shows large language models exhibiting rudimentary physical and spatial reasoning in real‑world control tasks while highlighting safety limits and the need for specialized benchmarks.
WHY IT MATTERS
This shows large language models exhibiting rudimentary physical and spatial reasoning in real‑world control tasks while highlighting safety limits and the need for specialized benchmarks.