Towards Lawful Autonomous Driving: Deriving Scenario-Aware Driving Requirements from Traffic Laws and Regulations
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| author | Jian, Bowen Yu, Rongjie Wang, Hong Wang, Liqiang Zou, Zihang |
| author_facet | Jian, Bowen Yu, Rongjie Wang, Hong Wang, Liqiang Zou, Zihang |
| contents | Driving in compliance with traffic laws and regulations is a basic requirement for human drivers, yet autonomous vehicles (AVs) can violate these requirements in diverse real-world scenarios. To encode law compliance into AV systems, conventional approaches use formal logic languages to explicitly specify behavioral constraints, but this process is labor-intensive, hard to scale, and costly to maintain. With recent advances in artificial intelligence, it is promising to leverage large language models (LLMs) to derive legal requirements from traffic laws and regulations. However, without explicitly grounding and reasoning in structured traffic scenarios, LLMs often retrieve irrelevant provisions or miss applicable ones, yielding imprecise requirements. To address this, we propose a novel pipeline that grounds LLM reasoning in a traffic scenario taxonomy through node-wise anchors that encode hierarchical semantics. On Chinese traffic laws and OnSite dataset (5,897 scenarios), our method improves law-scenario matching by 29.1\% and increases the accuracy of derived mandatory and prohibitive requirements by 36.9\% and 38.2\%, respectively. We further demonstrate real-world applicability by constructing a law-compliance layer for AV navigation and developing an onboard, real-time compliance monitor for in-field testing, providing a solid foundation for future AV development, deployment, and regulatory oversight. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards Lawful Autonomous Driving: Deriving Scenario-Aware Driving Requirements from Traffic Laws and Regulations Jian, Bowen Yu, Rongjie Wang, Hong Wang, Liqiang Zou, Zihang Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Computers and Society Driving in compliance with traffic laws and regulations is a basic requirement for human drivers, yet autonomous vehicles (AVs) can violate these requirements in diverse real-world scenarios. To encode law compliance into AV systems, conventional approaches use formal logic languages to explicitly specify behavioral constraints, but this process is labor-intensive, hard to scale, and costly to maintain. With recent advances in artificial intelligence, it is promising to leverage large language models (LLMs) to derive legal requirements from traffic laws and regulations. However, without explicitly grounding and reasoning in structured traffic scenarios, LLMs often retrieve irrelevant provisions or miss applicable ones, yielding imprecise requirements. To address this, we propose a novel pipeline that grounds LLM reasoning in a traffic scenario taxonomy through node-wise anchors that encode hierarchical semantics. On Chinese traffic laws and OnSite dataset (5,897 scenarios), our method improves law-scenario matching by 29.1\% and increases the accuracy of derived mandatory and prohibitive requirements by 36.9\% and 38.2\%, respectively. We further demonstrate real-world applicability by constructing a law-compliance layer for AV navigation and developing an onboard, real-time compliance monitor for in-field testing, providing a solid foundation for future AV development, deployment, and regulatory oversight. |
| title | Towards Lawful Autonomous Driving: Deriving Scenario-Aware Driving Requirements from Traffic Laws and Regulations |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24562 |