arxivcs.ROcs.CVeess.SY2026-07-06
VLM-CASE: Vision-Language Model Enabled Context-Adaptive Safety Envelopes for Anticipatory Safe Autonomous Driving
Tianjia Yang, Ke Li, Ruwen Qin, Xianbiao Hu
Adverse driving conditions, such as bad weather, remain a principal barrier to autonomous driving because they degrade two things at once: what the vehicle can perceive and what it can physically do. Human drivers cope by anticipation, reasoning about the scene and re-budgeting s…