The Current Development and Future Prospects of Autonomous Driving Driven by Artificial<b> </b>Intelligence

This paper explores the application and development of artificial intelligence in autonomous driving and analyses its current status, challenges, and future trends. Autonomous driving systems integrate multiple core technologies in vehicle perception and driving decision-making, achieving a leap from assisted driving to commercial deployment. Leveraging emerging methods such as machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, autonomous driving systems have significantly improved perception accuracy, decision-making capabilities, and environmental adaptability. However, current autonomous driving systems still face technical bottlenecks, including insufficient model generalizability and low training efficiency, while also encountering legal and societal challenges such as data privacy protection, accident liability determination, and algorithmic ethical biases. In the future, high-precision multimodal perception architectures, edge computing deployment solutions, and the construction of a vehicle‒road collaborative ecosystem will be key breakthrough directions for enabling fully autonomous driving across all scenarios.