Paper ID: 2207.02749

"Curse of rarity" for autonomous vehicles

Henry X. Liu, Shuo Feng

In this paper, we reveal that the rarity of safety-critical events in high-dimensional driving environments is the root cause of the safety challenge for autonomous vehicle development. We formulate it as "curse of rarity" (CoR) because it occurs ubiquitously in various safety-critical systems such as medical diagnosis and aerospace systems.

Submitted: Jul 6, 2022