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Technology / 26 Sep 2026

OpenAI Astra Completes Controlled Parking Lot Driving Test

In a DrivingBench test reported on September 24, OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra completed a cone course in a parking lot on its second attempt. It steered 134.7 meters in 5 minutes and 22 seconds, while GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.6, and Claude Fable 5.1 had not completed the course in their attempts. The comparison is specific to this controlled course and the models tested there.

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