BD-HazardVLM is a diagnostic benchmark of 500 Bangladesh road-scene images designed to probe vision‑language models’ defensive‑driving reasoning in weakly structured Global South traffic. The benchmark includes annotations for hazard presence, category, risk timing, severity, defensive actions, visible evidence, and bias traps, and evaluates models such as Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B, InternVL3‑8B, and MiniCPM‑V‑4.6. Results show high binary hazard‑presence accuracy but poor fine‑grained reasoning, with category accuracy below 40 %, risk‑timing accuracy under 13 %, and defensive‑action matching under 2 %. whyItMatters":"The study demonstrates that coarse hazard recognition does not guarantee reliable fine‑grained defensive‑driving reasoning, highlighting the need for geographically diverse safety evaluation of vision‑language models."
arXiv:2608. 19380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While modern autonomous driving systems excel at perception tasks such as object detection and trajectory prediction, they lack the high-level causal reasoning required to interpret traffic accidents.
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Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundamental trade-off between temporal reasoning and spatial precision. Models that rely on single-frame or low-resolution inputs often miss small, distant, or partially occluded hazards, while language-centric driving models frequently provide limited grounded evidence for their explanations.
arXiv:2607. 08745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language Models, Large Language Models, and Multimodal Large Language Models have improved autonomous driving tasks such as scene understanding, decision making, trajectory prediction, and visual question answering.
arXiv:2609.37871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Average performance on routine driving benchmarks does not establish planner reliability under rare, safety-critical hazards. We proposed ExceptionDr...
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arXiv:2511.20022v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong understanding of driving scenes, drawing interest in their...