Astra appears to drive a car with no specialist training, DrivingBench publishes full results
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-23
benjtodd highlights that Astra has seemingly gained the ability to drive a car without any specialist training. The DrivingBench team has published full results: each model gets 3 attempts within the same continuous chat, relying purely on in-context learning. If it holds up, this is another counterintuitive data point on multimodal model generalization — though "can drive" remains far from "can drive safely."
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