Untrained Chatbots Can Pilot Vehicles

A small San Francisco group (DrivingBench) hooked GPT‑6 and other frontier chatbots to a Toyota Corolla and — after iterative prompting and troubleshooting — got GPT‑6 Astra to navigate a cone course in a public parking lot. They published code, prompts, and videos, showing this was done with general‑purpose LLMs on a laptop rather than purpose‑built driving stacks. — Demonstrates a new, lower‑cost pathway for LLMs to gain physical‑world agency, creating urgent policy questions about safety, liability, and amateur deployment of agentic systems.