These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Will KnightBusinessOct 7, 2026 2:45 PMThese Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-OutThree engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Sitting in a 2024 Toyota Corolla near the Bay Area restaurant’s drive-thru lane, they opened a laptop and asked OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to take the wheel. They linked a chat interface to a server, which was connected to several windscreen-mounted cameras and the car’s power steering system.
- ▪Will KnightBusinessOct 7, 2026 2:45 PMThese Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-OutThree engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car.
- ▪Sitting in a 2024 Toyota Corolla near the Bay Area restaurant’s drive-thru lane, they opened a laptop and asked OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to take the wheel.
- ▪They linked a chat interface to a server, which was connected to several windscreen-mounted cameras and the car’s power steering system.
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Will KnightBusinessOct 7, 2026 2:45 PMThese Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-OutThree engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyAditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, and Tobias Gessler, three AI engineers at a startup called Axiom, recently fancied In-N-Out Burger for lunch.They weren’t about to drive themselves, though. Sitting in a 2024 Toyota Corolla near the Bay Area restaurant’s drive-thru lane, they opened a laptop and asked OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to take the wheel. They linked a chat interface to a server, which was connected to several windscreen-mounted cameras and the car’s power steering system.
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