The authors retrofitted a 2022 Toyota Corolla with a comma four running modified openpilot software.
Frontier vision-language models mostly fail a real low-speed driving course
Only one of four general-purpose models completed a 127-metre cone course while directly controlling a Toyota Corolla.
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Aditya Ramabadran · Simon Mahns · Tobias Gessler
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Ramabadran, Mahns and Gessler tested whether general-purpose vision-language models could drive a real car without driving-specific training or a conventional autonomy planner making high-level decisions for them.
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Only GPT-6 Astra among general-purpose vision-language models completed a real car cone course.
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