Blind Spots, Bright Ideas: How Risk-Aware Cooperation Could Save Autonomous Driving
Left turn, blocked view, bad timing Start with the boring part of driving: a car waiting to turn left. The ego vehicle has LiDAR. It has a perception stack. It has a clean mathematical confidence score and, presumably, a dashboard that looks more expensive than the problem deserves. But a parked vehicle, a bus, or a line of traffic blocks the view. Somewhere beyond that occlusion, an oncoming vehicle may be approaching. The autonomous system does not need to know everything about the city. It does not need every neighboring car to livestream its sensors like a nervous influencer. It needs one missing fact: is there something dangerous inside the blind zone? ...