I'm surprised these models haven't picked this up yet in the training data. Both Claude and ChatGPT missed that one when I posed the question to them last year.

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treis 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

ChatGPT still says walk but adds:

>The main reasons to drive such a short distance would be if you're bringing the car specifically to be washed, carrying something heavy, or the weather or walking conditions make it impractical.

>If your goal is to get your car washed, you'll need the car there—so driving makes sense. If you're just going to talk to someone at the car wash or check it out, walking is probably faster.

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tingletech 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would a model know that one washes cars at a car wash? We don't clean our bodies at the body wash or clean the kitchen at the kitchen wash.

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shepardrtc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's meaning in the term "car wash" that it understands. But I don't suspect anyone has taught it that for 99.9% of people, going to car wash ONLY means that you're going to wash your car and that it should make that implicit assumption.

What if you're the car wash owner? Or a maintenance technician? Pretty easy to just walk over there if you're just 50ft away.

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jjtheblunt 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

to your point, when my Aussie friends first mentioned a "car park" to my north american born self, i wondered _momentarily_ what that was, then realized it's sort of a fun name for what i would call a parking lot.

	▲	nl 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I've never thought of it as a fun term before. We use "park" as "I will park the car" not park as in "amusement park"

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SequoiaHope 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every model knows what a car wash is.

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purerandomness 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If it doesn't, what's the point using it? Trusting it with your workflows, your code?