[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-ai-chatbots-took-turns-driving-a-real-car-one-actually-worked":10,"sections":44},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":39,"feedback":43,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":43,"total_tokens":43},10554,"ai-chatbots-took-turns-driving-a-real-car-one-actually-worked","AI Chatbots Took Turns Driving a Real Car. One Actually Worked","Engineers let GPT, Claude, and Grok drive a Toyota Corolla on a real road test, but only one chatbot pulled off the trip without incident.","Three engineers let AI chatbots drive a real car to lunch. Only one pulled it off.\n\nEach engineer wired a different chatbot, GPT, Claude, or Grok, into the controls of a Toyota Corolla and sent it onto public roads with one destination: In-N-Out. Two of the three AI-piloted runs failed. One chatbot completed the drive, but the source report does not say which model pulled it off, who built each setup, or exactly where the test happened. It also doesn't explain how the chatbots' text output got translated into steering, braking, and acceleration commands, a step that is usually the hard part of any driving system.\n\nChatbots like these were built to predict text, not read lidar or react to a car cutting into a lane. A two-out-of-three failure rate on a casual demo, not a controlled test track, is a rough signal of how far general-purpose language models are from the purpose-built stacks companies like Waymo and Tesla have spent a decade refining. It is also a reminder that 'a chatbot drove a car' and 'a chatbot drives safely' are not the same claim.\n\nCall it a stunt with better odds than a coin flip, not a self-driving breakthrough.","[\"ai\",\"self-driving\",\"chatbots\",\"autonomous-vehicles\"]","2026-10-07T18:45:00.000Z","2026-10-08T17:54:31.981Z","2026-10-08T17:54:35.950Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Specify which chatbot actually succeeded, add missing attribution (who conducted the test, where, and when) since the single Wired source lacks named individuals or confirmed details, and either source or cut the unsupported 'years and billions of dollars' claim about Waymo and Cruise.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The draft still fails to name which chatbot succeeded and still lacks attribution (who conducted the test, where, and when) — find and add those specifics or clearly flag them as unavailable from the single source rather than restating the gap as the story's point.","ai",[34,36,37,38],"self-driving","chatbots","autonomous-vehicles",[40],{"name":41,"url":42},"Wired","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wired.com\u002Fstory\u002Fai-is-driving-cars-now-oh-boy\u002F",0,{"sections":45},[46,49,54,59,64,69,74,79,84,88,93,98,103,108],{"name":47,"slug":34,"count":48,"latest_published_at":18},"AI",6390,{"name":50,"slug":51,"count":52,"latest_published_at":53},"Security","security",902,"2026-10-07T19:53:42.000Z",{"name":55,"slug":56,"count":57,"latest_published_at":58},"Policy","policy",474,"2026-10-07T18:23:21.000Z",{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Deals","deals",453,"2026-10-07T23:58:31.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Hardware","hardware",222,"2026-10-07T21:19:54.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Science","science",186,"2026-10-06T21:20:39.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",174,"2026-10-07T17:41:41.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Software","software",113,"2026-10-07T18:10:00.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":82,"latest_published_at":87},"Startups","startups","2026-10-07T23:36:57.000Z",{"name":89,"slug":90,"count":91,"latest_published_at":92},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",105,"2026-10-07T16:59:11.000Z",{"name":94,"slug":95,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"General","general",61,"2026-10-07T22:00:24.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"Gaming","gaming",56,"2026-10-07T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":104,"slug":105,"count":106,"latest_published_at":107},"Reviews","reviews",33,"2026-10-05T11:57:17.000Z",{"name":109,"slug":110,"count":111,"latest_published_at":112},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]