The paper introduces NavSecure, a vision‑based navigation framework that combines world models with safety‑focused decision making for autonomous vehicles operating over 5G networks. By predicting potential threats and generating safer routes, NavSecure reduces reliance on extensive real‑world trial‑and‑error learning and enables continuous autonomous adaptation. Experiments in simulation‑to‑real driving scenarios demonstrate superior performance in collision prevention and risk reduction compared to other end‑to‑end methods.
arXiv:2608. 10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving, yet ensuring the safety of online RL policies remains challenging due to insufficient exposure to safety-critical driving scenes.
arXiv:2510. 09041v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated remarkable success in developing autonomous driving policies.
arXiv:2606. 06423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety-critical traffic scenario generation is essential for evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare but high-risk interactions.
arXiv:2606. 00857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and reliable vehicle trajectory prediction is essential for safe autonomous driving.
arXiv:2603. 18315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely on manually engineered rewards or sparse collision signals, which fail to capture the rich contextual understanding required for safe driving and make unsafe exploration unavoidable in real-world settings.
arXiv:2508. 00917v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) must simultaneously perform multiple tasks, such as perception, prediction, planning, and control, to ensure safe and reliable navigation in complex environments.
arXiv:2510. 03314v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians and cyclists, remains a critical challenge, as conventional infrastructure-based measures are often insufficient in dynamic urban environments.
arXiv:2609.10377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety is a fundamental requirement for autonomous driving, yet existing end-to-end driving models still lack explicit risk-aware learning capacities...
The paper introduces WM‑RMoE, a World Model‑based Risk‑aware Mixture‑of‑Experts framework for autonomous overtaking. It uses a learned latent dynamics model to perform multi‑step rollouts, evaluating cumulative risk at the trajectory level, and employs a hierarchical gating mechanism to coordinate long‑, short‑horizon, and rule‑based safety experts. A Gaussian Mixture Model preserves multimodal maneuver branches, improving robustness and preventing behavioral averaging, leading to better safety compliance, decision stability, and generalization in experiments.
arXiv:2610.02765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring planned driving trajectories requires accurately estimating the collision likelihood with actors whose motion is itself impacted by the eg...
arXiv:2512. 15503v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vehicular platooning promises transformative improvements in transportation efficiency and safety through the coordination of multi-vehicle formations enabled by Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication.
LightEMMA is a longitudinal evaluation framework that tests the autonomous driving performance of vision‑language models (VLMs) without fine‑tuning or prompt engineering. Using this protocol, the authors evaluated 15 VLMs from five major families on the nuScenes prediction benchmark and found that larger, more capable models do not consistently outperform earlier generations. The study identifies common failure modes such as overreliance on historical actions and difficulty reconciling conflicting visual cues, underscoring the need for domain‑specific adaptation to enhance VLM safety in autonomous driving.