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A Novel MLLM-based Approach for Autonomous Driving in Different Weather Conditions

T0 review · 4 major / 6 minor · reviewed 2026-08-12 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read A prompt-engineered GPT-4o agent can drive a simulated car well in heavy rain, storm, fog, and wetness.

desk verdict Useful sensor-ablation data for a prompt-engineered GPT-4o driving agent, but undefined and inconsistent evaluation metrics sink the headline claims. read the letter →

arxiv 2411.10603 v1 pith:4HDZSKSQ submitted 2024-11-15 cs.RO cs.SYeess.SY

classification cs.ROcs.SYeess.SY
keywords autonomousdrivingmultimodallargelanguagemodelsGPT-4oweatherconditionsCARLALimSim++promptengineeringsensorfusion
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper tries to establish that a multimodal large language model, GPT-4o, can act as the sole decision-maker for an autonomous vehicle inside a simulator, even when the weather is bad. The authors build an agent called MLLM-AD-4o by wrapping GPT-4o in the LimSim++ closed-loop framework, which connects to the CARLA driving simulator, and they evaluate it in good weather, heavy rain, storm, fog, and wetness. Their central claim is that the prompt-engineered agent maintains high safety and efficiency across all these conditions, and that its performance changes in specific ways when rear cameras or LiDAR are added. If true, this would show that careful prompt engineering alone can give a general-purpose model enough driving competence for simulation-based studies, without fine-tuning or reinforcement learning.

What carries the argument

The central object is MLLM-AD-4o, a prompt-engineered agent that couples GPT-4o (a multimodal large language model) to the LimSim++ closed-loop simulation framework, which in turn co-simulates CARLA (the driving simulator) and SUMO (the traffic simulator). At each decision frame, the agent sends a prompt—containing the current camera images, optionally LiDAR data, navigation information, and an action set—to the GPT-4o API, and receives back a single action (idle, accelerate, decelerate, turn left, turn right). The authors also add a 'set weather' function to CARLA that configures eight parameters (cloudiness, precipitation, precipitation deposits, wind intensity, sun altitude angle, fog density, fog distance, wetness) to create the five weather conditions tested.

What would settle it

Re-run the same Town-06 route and weather conditions with the comfort score recomputed from a standard definition (e.g., the 95th percentile of jerk magnitude) and the speed score computed exactly as its prose says (0.9 when speeding, 1 otherwise); if the weather-condition rankings of the CDFs change, the reported safety, comfort, and efficiency conclusions are artifacts of the undefined metric formulas.

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Core claim

The central claim is that MLLM-AD-4o, a GPT-4o-based agent that receives only a hand-crafted prompt and sensor images, can keep high safety, comfort, efficiency, and speed scores across five weather conditions in the CARLA simulator, and that these scores trade off against each other in a weather-dependent way. In good weather the agent drives more aggressively, being riskier but more efficient; in heavy rain and storm it drives slower, being safer and smoother but less efficient. The agent's sensor configuration matters: adding three rear cameras improves performance, especially in good weather, and combining LiDAR with three front cameras gives the best safety and comfort in heavy rain, while combining LiDAR with all six cameras degrades the results.

Load-bearing premise

The central claim rests on the evaluation metrics in Section V-A being valid measures of safety, comfort, and efficiency; the paper never defines the sub-scores used in the comfort equation, and the speed score's prose description contradicts its equation, so if the metric definitions are wrong or arbitrary the 'high safety and efficiency' result is unsupported.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the central claim holds, prompt-engineered MLLMs can serve as zero-shot driving decision-makers without fine-tuning, suggesting a lower-cost route to simulation-based AD research.
  • The sensor-ablation results imply that adding perception channels does not monotonically improve an MLLM agent; the right sensor mix depends on weather conditions.
  • The weather-specific trade-offs (e.g., safer and smoother but less efficient in heavy rain) suggest that an MLLM agent can implicitly adapt its risk-taking to environmental conditions.
  • The finding that LiDAR with six cameras degrades performance points to a need for careful sensor fusion rather than simply adding more sensors.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An implicit extension is that the same prompt-engineering recipe could be ported to other MLLMs or other simulators, but the paper does not demonstrate this.
  • The authors do not compare against a fine-tuned or reinforcement-learned agent; a natural next test would be whether MLLM-AD-4o's weather robustness beats those baselines.
  • The observation that rear cameras improve performance mainly in good weather could reflect the model's training distribution rather than a general perceptual benefit; that would be testable by varying the prompt wording.
  • The metrics are the load-bearing part; an external reader could re-run the same CDF analysis with standard jerk and TTC definitions to check whether the reported rankings persist.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper proposes MLLM-AD-4o, a prompt-engineered autonomous driving agent based on GPT-4o integrated into the LimSim++/CARLA closed-loop simulator. The authors extend LimSim++ with six-camera support, a weather-management function, and semantic LiDAR integration, and they evaluate the agent under five weather conditions and several sensor configurations. The headline claims are that the agent maintains high safety and efficiency across adverse weather and that activating front and rear cameras (and, selectively, LiDAR) changes performance. The evaluation uses CDFs of safety, comfort, efficiency, and speed scores defined in Section V-A.

Significance. If the evaluation were fully specified, the paper would be a useful empirical data point on the feasibility of using a general-purpose MLLM for closed-loop driving control under adverse weather. The authors contribute an open-source modification of the LimSim++ platform, which supports reproducibility. The central quantitative claim, however, is currently unsupported because the metrics used to compute every reported score are incomplete or contradictory, and because no baseline or absolute threshold is provided to justify the phrase 'high levels of safety and efficiency.' The manuscript's conclusions about sensor configurations are qualitative and not backed by statistical tests.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section V-A, Eqs. (1)-(4)] The four performance scores that underlie every figure and conclusion are not adequately defined. The comfort score in Eq. (2) is the average of 'acc score', 'jerk score', 'lat acc score', and 'lat jerk score', but none of these sub-scores is defined anywhere in the manuscript. The safety score in Eq. (1) requires a threshold τ_th that is never specified. The efficiency score in Eq. (3) depends on v* ∈ {v_avg, v_limit}, but the paper does not state how v_avg is computed, how sparse versus regular traffic is determined, or how the choice between the two targets is made. The speed score's prose states it is '0.9 when the AV exceeds the speed limit and 1 otherwise', which contradicts Eq. (4), an aggregate exponential penalty over the fraction of speeding frames; the two only coincide at exactly 10% speeding frames. Because every headline result is a statement about these scores, the central claim is currently not reproducible or interpretable.
  2. [Section V-A, parameters] The parameters α1, α2, α3 are assigned values but never appear in any equation or in the analysis. If they are intended for a weighted combination of the four scores, that combination is missing; otherwise they should be removed. Their presence suggests an intended overall performance index that is never defined, and the reader cannot tell which results, if any, depend on these weights.
  3. [Section V-E, Figs. 4-6] The conclusions are drawn from qualitative comparisons of CDFs without any baseline or statistical significance test. In particular, the abstract's claim that the agent maintains 'high levels of safety and efficiency' is not supported by the data as presented: the safety CDFs in Fig. 4a lie in the range 0.95-1, but without an absolute threshold or a comparison to a reference system there is no basis for calling these values 'high'. Similarly, the statement in Section V-E and the Conclusion that adding rear cameras 'significantly enhances the system's performance' is not backed by any statistical test; 'significantly' appears to be used in a non-statistical sense. The authors should provide a baseline (e.g., a rule-based agent or another MLLM agent) and, ideally, confidence intervals or hypothesis tests for the CDF comparisons.
  4. [Section II, Table I and Section IV-C] The manuscript claims that no prior work has fully assessed MLLM-based driving agents in a closed-loop framework under harsh environmental conditions, yet Table I already lists Co-driver [27] with foggy/gloomy and rainy/gloomy environments. The novelty claim is therefore overstated, and the related-work comparison should clarify exactly what is new relative to that work: is it the specific agent (GPT-4o), the sensor configuration, the set of weather parameters, or the evaluation metrics?
minor comments (6)
  1. [Fig. 4d] The caption of Fig. 4d says 'Front cameras' but the figure includes curves labeled 'Good Weather 6 CAMS' and 'Wetness 6 CAMS'; the footnote only partially explains this. The caption should be updated to reflect the inclusion of 6-camera speed scores.
  2. [Table III] There is inconsistent naming in Table III: 'precipita tion deposits' appears with a space and later as 'precipitation deposits'; 'fog density' is split as 'fog density' in some rows. Unify the parameter names for clarity.
  3. [Fig. 3] The prompt text in Fig. 3 contains a stray triple-quote (""") after 'SHOULD BE exactly same and no other words!', and the closing delimiter is misaligned. Fix the formatting so the prompt is shown exactly as used.
  4. [Section IV-A] The description of Town-06 says it is a 'low-density town' but also has 'long highways/roads with multiple lanes (4 to 6) per direction'; please clarify whether this is the only map used in all experiments and how representative it is of the weather scenarios studied.
  5. [Section V-E] The phrase 'best CDF' is used repeatedly (e.g., 'the best safety CDF is achieved in heavy rain'). Since CDFs are curves, 'best' should be defined in terms of a stochastic order (e.g., first-order stochastic dominance) or a summary statistic (e.g., mean score) to make the comparisons precise.
  6. [Abstract and Section V-A] The abstract and introduction state that the paper evaluates perception, but no perception-specific metrics (e.g., detection accuracy, segmentation quality) are reported; only driving-level scores are given. Please clarify what 'perception' refers to in this context.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 0.0 of 10

No significant circularity: the paper is an empirical evaluation with no derivation chain that reduces to its inputs; its main weaknesses are under-specified metrics, not circular reasoning.

full rationale

The paper reports an empirical study of a GPT-4o-based driving agent (MLLM-AD-4o) in the CARLA/LimSim++ simulator across weather and sensor configurations. It does not fit a parameter to a subset of data and then predict a closely related quantity, and it does not invoke an author-imported uniqueness theorem; there is essentially no mathematical derivation chain that could reduce to its own inputs. The self-citations ([2], [22]) are a background review and a code repository, and neither is load-bearing for the experimental claims. The principal analytical weakness is that the evaluation scores are internally defined and partially under-specified: in Section V-A, the comfort sub-scores in Eq. (2) are never defined, Eq. (4) contradicts its accompanying prose for the speed score, Eq. (3) leaves the target speed v* ambiguous, and the safety threshold tau_th is not specified. These issues make the headline safety/efficiency claims hard to reproduce and externally validate, but they are correctness and rigor deficiencies rather than circularity: the conclusions are not equivalent to the definitions by construction, and no quantity is fitted and then renamed as a prediction. The score is therefore 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central evaluation rests on a chain of unverified definitions and simulation fidelity assumptions. The free parameters are hand-chosen scoring terms, not fitted to external data, which makes the metric validity a pure assumption. No new physical or theoretical entities are introduced.

free parameters (5)
  • TTC threshold tau_th
    Used in Eq. (1) to convert time-to-conflict into a safety score; without a specified value, the safety CDFs cannot be reproduced or interpreted.
  • Comfort score sub-scores
    Eq. (2) says comfort is the average of acc score, jerk score, lateral acc score, and lateral jerk score, but none of these are defined; their computation is a hidden choice affecting all comfort results.
  • Speed score exponent = 10
    Eq. (4) applies a factor 10 in the exponent of 0.9; this scaling is arbitrary and not justified, and the prose describes a different rule.
  • Efficiency speed target v* = v_avg or v_limit (ambiguous)
    The choice of whether to use average surrounding speed or road speed limit in Eq. (3) is left ambiguous without specifying how the target is selected in each situation.
  • Weights alpha1, alpha2, alpha3 = 0.25, 0.25, 0.5
    These weights are introduced in Section V-A but never appear in any metric equation; their purpose is unclear.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption CARLA/SUMO simulation faithfully represents real-world driving physics and weather conditions.
    The paper uses the CARLA simulator and SUMO traffic to draw conclusions about real autonomous driving safety; no validation against real-world data is provided.
  • domain assumption The proposed performance scores correctly quantify safety, comfort, efficiency, and speed compliance.
    The scores are defined by the authors and used as ground truth for 'high safety' claims; the comfort score sub-components are undefined, undermining this assumption.
  • domain assumption GPT-4o API decisions are stable across calls for the same input frames.
    The CDFs are built from frame decisions; if the API is stochastic, single-run CDFs may not be representative, and no seed or repeat runs are reported.
  • domain assumption The experimental scenario (single route on Town-06, five discrete actions) covers the complexity needed to assess adverse-weather driving.
    The evaluation uses one highway route with limited traffic density; results may not generalize to urban scenarios or continuous control.

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Autonomous driving (AD) technology promises to revolutionize daily transportation by making it safer, more efficient, and more comfortable. Their role in reducing traffic accidents and improving mobility will be vital to the future of intelligent transportation systems. Autonomous driving in harsh environmental conditions presents significant challenges that demand robust and adaptive solutions and require more investigation. In this context, we present in this paper a comprehensive performance analysis of an autonomous driving agent leveraging the capabilities of a Multi-modal Large Language Model (MLLM) using GPT-4o within the LimSim++ framework that offers close loop interaction with the CARLA driving simulator. We call it MLLM-AD-4o. Our study evaluates the agent's decision-making, perception, and control under adverse conditions, including bad weather, poor visibility, and complex traffic scenarios. Our results demonstrate the AD agent's ability to maintain high levels of safety and efficiency, even in challenging environments, underscoring the potential of GPT-4o to enhance autonomous driving systems (ADS) in any environment condition. Moreover, we evaluate the performance of MLLM-AD-4o when different perception entities are used including either front cameras only, front and rear cameras, and when combined with LiDAR. The results of this work provide valuable insights into integrating MLLMs with AD frameworks, paving the way for future advancements in this field.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Typical architecture of ADS. testing environments, e.g., 14 towns, each with unique layouts, road networks, and features. In our work, we focused on using Town-06, which is a low-density town that has long highways/roads with multiple lanes (4 to 6) per direction, several highway entrances and exits, and special junctions. B. SUMO Simulator Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO) is an open-source modular traffic simula… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Integration of MLLM-AD-4o in LimSim++. You are GPT-4o, a large multi-modal model trained by OpenAI. Now you act as a mature driving assistant, who can give accurate and correct advice for human driver in complex urban driving scenarios. You'll receive some images from the onboard camera. You'll need to make driving inferences and decisions based on the information in the images. At each decision frame, you receive n… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Example of used prompt for GPT-4o. • Cloudiness: The amount of cloud cover in the sky. A high value means more clouds. • Precipitation: The intensity of rain. A high value means heavier rain. • Precipitation deposits: The amount of water accumulat￾ing on the ground due to precipitation. A high value means important accumulation. • Wind intensity: The strength of wind. A high value means stronger wind. • Sun altitude… view at source ↗
Figures from the paper (3 more)
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: CDFs of MLLM-AD-4o scores (Front cameras). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png]
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: CDFs of MLLM-AD-4o scores (Front+rear cameras). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png]
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: CDFs of MLLM-AD-4o scores (Combinations of cameras with LiDAR; Heavy rain). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png]

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