Autonomous Driving Audit - Aritra Chakrabarty and Zack Allen

[Zaaler]

Draft of Autonomous Driving Audit including discussion of the following three papers:

1. AlphaDrive: Unleashing the Power of VLMs in Autonomous Driving via Reinforcement Learning and Reasoning
2. EMMA: End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving
3. Alpamayo-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Action Prediction for Generalizable Autonomous Driving in the Long Tail

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❌ Engineering Standards Check Failed

Your audit does not meet the required "Senior Staff" engineering standards. Please address the following issues before requesting instructor review:

Common Issues:

1. Required Frontmatter Fields

• Every audit MDX file must include these fields:
  • title: Paper title
  • author: Paper author(s)
  • topic: Research topic/category
  • paper: Link to paper or citation
• All fields must have non-empty values (no placeholders like "TBD" or "TODO")

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• Each sentence should be on its own line
• This makes PR commenting and reviewing much easier
• Example:

  - This is a very long sentence with multiple ideas. It continues on the same line. This makes PR review difficult.
  + This is a sentence on its own line.
  + Each idea gets its own line.
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• No "Merge branch 'main'" commits allowed
• Use git rebase main instead of git merge main
• Keep your commit history linear and clean

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1. Edit your MDX file to put each sentence on a new line
2. Commit and push the changes

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1. Run: git rebase main (or git rebase staging)
2. Resolve any conflicts if needed
3. Run: git push --force-with-lease

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