The Role of World Models in Shaping Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey

Understand

The Driving World Model (DWM), which focuses on predicting scene evolution during the driving process, has emerged as a promising paradigm in the pursuit of autonomous driving (AD).

• DWMs enable AD systems to better perceive, understand, and interact with dynamic driving environments.
• In this survey, we provide a comprehensive overview of the latest progress in DWM.
• First, we review the DWM ecosystem, which is constructed using mainstream simulators, high-impact datasets, and various metrics that evaluate DWMs across multiple dimensions.