Abstract-- Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems are a crucial component in ensuring the safety of passengers in autonomous vehicles. Through extensive experimentation, we have validated the effectiveness of our method. The Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) system is a critical safety feature in autonomous vehicles, designed to information, making it impossible to predict an impending mitigate or prevent collisions by automatically activating the collision. Similarly, while end-to-end methods process raw brakes when a potential collision is detected [1]. Numerous sensory data, they often lack the reasoning capacity to studies [1]-[5] have demonstrated the effectiveness of AEB interpret indirect cues--such as the illuminated brake lights systems, with reductions in rear-end collisions ranging from on the vehicle to the left of the ego vehicle--that may 25% to 50%.

Large Language Models (LLMs) [27], including Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) [6] and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) [13], have achieved state-of-theart performance on a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. LLMs are gaining popularity and receiving increasing attention for their significant applications in knowledge reasoning [12, 52, 57]. ChatGPT is one of the LLMs applications, and probably the application, in the limelight. ChatGPT was used for collating literature and writing professional papers in fields like law [9], and medical education [30, 16]. OpenAI announced GPT-4 in March 2023 that can pass some of the bar exams to AP Biology [39]. These successful stories demonstrate that people have already gained experience in using LLMs, for their performance in handling complex content due to their massive training datasets and model capacity to process and learn from data, enabling their potential for complex tasks that require domain expert knowledge [38]. Given this, as researchers in the field of safety-critical systems, we pose a question: Can safety analysis make use of LLMs?

Vehicle safety technology has come a long way since the late 1980s. Some safety features that we take for granted today, like seatbelts and airbags, were once technological innovations, that took years to become mandatory for all vehicles. The next big thing in vehicle safety today is autonomous safety vehicle technology. While there is no law that demands all cars to feature this tech, most new models include it in an effort to save lives, prevent countless injuries, and bring down crash numbers. But what are the basic features, how do they work, and how do they save lives?

Safe autonomous driving in urban areas requires robust algorithms to avoid collisions with other traffic participants with limited perception ability. Current deployed approaches relying on Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) systems are often overly conservative. In this work, we formulate the problem as a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), to derive a policy robust to uncertainty in the pedestrian location. We investigate how to integrate such a policy with an AEB system that operates only when a collision is unavoidable. In addition, we propose a rigorous evaluation methodology on a set of well defined scenarios. We show that combining the two approaches provides a robust autonomous braking system that reduces unnecessary braking caused by using the AEB system on its own.

The tech is pretty cool, but don't let new developments in self-driving cars distract you from your responsibilities behind the wheel. Ford's Co-Pilot360 system offers an array of driver-assist features that including automatic emergency braking. One of the most common semi-autonomous driving features added to cars these days is automatic emergency braking. This feature stepped into the spotlight in two recent crashes for different reasons, one involving an Uber self-driving car in Arizona in March and another involving a Tesla Model S in Utah a few weeks ago. What can it do -- and what shouldn't a driver expect it to handle?