DrivingBench(@DrivingBench):DrivingBench origins 🚗 @tobiges: "We were all on Twitter a lot, and we saw all these demos of crazy things recent models like Astra were capable of doing in Blender, spatial reasoning, all these things. We were hanging out on a weekend and chatting about what would be possible." "We were thinking: are we actually at a point where we can take general-purpose models? Obviously these driving systems are super specialized. But what if we took a general model and gave it a car to drive, and see what happens?" "So we decided to make it into a benchmark and do more sophisticated evaluations of the capabilities these models have now." @MTSlive @nautsimon_ @a

2026.10.09 19:36

DrivingBench origins 🚗 @tobiges: "We were all on Twitter a lot, and we saw all these demos of crazy things recent models like Astra were capable of doing in Blender, spatial reasoning, all these things. We were hanging out on a weekend and chatting about what would be possible." "We were thinking: are we actually at a point where we can take general-purpose models? Obviously these driving systems are super specialized. But what if we took a general model and gave it a car to drive, and see what happens?" "So we decided to make it into a benchmark and do more sophisticated evaluations of the capabilities these models have now." @MTSlive @nautsimon_ @a_ramabadran