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Engineers trained GPT-class agents to drive a Toyota Corolla to In-N-Out
Oct 7, 2026SOURCE: wired.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, this is a credibility test: real-world AI control is still fragile, so meaningful choice favors teams that can measure, iterate, and own feedback loops.
GPT, Claude, and Grok were each used to control a real vehicle; only one worked reliably. The signal is practical autonomy still being arbitraged across competing model stacks.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.