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Vibe Coding2026-09-24 · source-backed
Frontier models steered a 2022 Toyota Corolla through a comma four device and three MCP tools, running inside Codex, Claude Code and Cursor. Astra completed the parking-lot course on its second attempt in about five minutes, capping speed at 0.8 m/s after reflecting on its first run. Claude Fable 5.1 got about halfway. Everything else failed at the first corner on perception (DrivingBench). The detail that'll stay with me: Astra sometimes refused to drive for safety reasons until the authors renamed the MCP server to "DrivingBench Sandbox." Tool naming changes refusal behavior in physical-world agents, which is a terrible property for a safety mechanism to have.
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