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Unlike Tesla’s system, which is a garbage-in, garbage-out black box, Nvidia’s Alpamayo self-driving system can think like ChatGPT. Nvidia claims it will be better than Google’s Waymo, but that will have to be seen.

“The ChatGPT moment for physical AI is here — when machines begin to understand, reason, and act in the real world,” said Nvidia (Nasdaq ticker NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang at CES in Las Vegas

Nvidia takes on Tesla with what Jensen Huang calls the 'ChatGPT moment' for self-driving

Nvidia is trying to improve self-driving beyond Waymo. They just unveiled their Alpamayo self-driving technology, which uses a chain-of-thought reasoning-based vision language action (VLA) model. These models can recognize unique driving situations that might not otherwise happen during a regular drive and come up with the proper way to move forward.

Lucid is the first OEM interested in adopting it, and Uber and Berkeley DeepDrive are also interested in it.

Nvidia announces humanoid robot plans, self-driving car technologies at CES 2026

Prius (Prime) PHEV shines at the pinnacle of reliability, but most other PHEVs rank rock-bottom in the reliability list. Ford Escape PHEV and many others have numerous issues, such as being bricked. One owner had her vehicle bricked for six months.

Hybrids Are Still the Most Reliable Cars, CR Survey Shows - Consumer Reports