Commonsense Reasoning-Aided Autonomous Vehicle Systems

For both academic and industry research, AV technology has seen incredible advances since the introduction of computer vision-focused systems in the 1980's [3]. Here, this paper will provide some formal definitions for autonomous vehicles that it will use throughout this writing. SAE International defines autonomous vehicles into six different levels based on the level of automation, with level 0 being no automation and level 5 being full driving automation [6]. Despite AV research being a well-explored field, there are still no level 5, or fully autonomous, vehicles. This is largely due to imperfections in computer vision systems and the complexity of more complicated driving tasks that require a human driver to be present.