New AI System for Self-Driving Cars Learns from Human Fear to Drive More Safely
• New "fear-inspired" AI system for self-driving cars uses principles of human fear response and psychology to drive more safely • System is called FNI-RL (Fear-Neuro-Inspired Reinforcement Learning) and learns to forecast and avoid hazardous scenarios • In simulations, FNI-RL outperformed 10 other AI driving systems and human drivers in safety metrics • Improved driving performance over other systems by as much as 64% in one test and avoided collisions more often • Researchers believe combining FNI-RL with sequential models like large language models could further improve performance for trustworthy autonomous vehicles