"I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models
Only 5 of 53 leading AI models consistently passed a simple reasoning test about driving a car to a car wash.
Deep Dive
A viral test by /u/facethef asked 53 AI models whether to walk or drive 50 meters to a car wash. The correct answer requires understanding the car must be at the wash. Only Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite, Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 3 Pro, and Grok-4 scored 10/10. GPT-5 failed 3/10 times, while 33 models, including GPT-4o and all Llama models, scored 0/10.
Why It Matters
Highlights a critical gap in AI's common-sense reasoning, a core challenge for real-world agent deployment.