Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. This may not sound impressive in the age of the self-driving car until you realize that the LLM driving the car was a general purpose chatbot running on a laptop and not the purpose-built driving system based on millions of hours of…
An anonymous report from 404 Media details a peculiar experiment conducted by San Francisco tech workers. They connected various large language models (LLMs) to a Toyota Corolla and attempted to drive it around a parking lot course. The LLMs used were GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Grok 4.6, and GPT-5.6 Sol. The goal was to determine if these off-the-shelf AI systems could navigate the course autonomously using only basic prompt instructions.
While Grok, Sol, and Fable struggled and only managed a few meters, GPT-6 Astra eventually completed the course through extensive troubleshooting. This demonstration showcases the unexpected emergent capabilities of general-purpose chatbots, moving beyond their typical white-collar applications. Experts view this as a sign of how rapidly AI capabilities are transitioning from digital environments to the physical world, even if it's still a long way from replacing established autonomous driving systems like Waymo or Tesla.
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