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AUTOPILOT-VQA introduces an incident-centric visual question answering benchmark using dashcam video understanding with structured, real-world driving and near-incident questions. It spans safety-relevant categories including weather, lighting, traffic context, road layout and surface state, signage, entities, accident occurrence, impact location, and avoidability reasoning, enabling temporally grounded safety-aware analysis beyond object recognition. The benchmark supports interoperable, standardized evaluation for CVPR 2026.","AUTOPILOT VQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Incident-Centric Dashcam Understanding  \nSiddharth Damodharan University of Colorado Colorado Springs Ali Alshami  \nUniversity of Colorado Colorado Springs  \nRadhika Gupta  \nUniversity of Michigan Ryan Rabinowitz University of Notre Dame  \nJugal Kalita  \nUniversity of Colorado Colorado Springs  \narXiv :2607 .08745v 1 [ cs .AI] 9 Jul 2026  \nAbstract  \nRecent advances in Vision-Language Models, Large Language Models, and Multimodal Large Language Models have improved autonomous driving tasks such as scene understanding, decision making, trajectory prediction, and visual question answering. However, evaluating whether these models can reliably reason about safety-critical incidents remains challenging. To address this gap, we present AUTOPILOT-VQA, an incident-centric visual question answering benchmark for dashcam video understanding. The dataset evaluates different systems through structured questions designed around real-world driving incidents and near-incidents. The benchmark covers diverse safety-relevant categories, including weather and lighting conditions, traffic environment, road layout, road surface state, signage, involved entities, accident occurrence, impact location, and avoidability-related reasoning. By requiring models to answer grounded questions about both contextual scene properties and event-level incident details, AUTOPILOT-VQA moves beyond object recognition toward temporally grounded, safety-aware reasoning. The dataset is released as part of the AUTOPILOT CVPR 2026 competition and provides a standardized benchmark for assessing the reliability of autonomous driving systems in different scenarios. Our benchmark support developments for more interpretable, robust, and safety-conscious vision-language systems for real-world autonomous driving.  \n1. Introduction  \nAutonomous vehicles rely on accurate interpretation of complex traffic scenes to ensure safe and reliable operation in real-world environments. In everyday driving, autonomous systems must process large volumes of multi-  \nFigure 1 . Overview of the VQA-Autopilot dataset annotation schema. The visualization illustrates the hierarchical structure of annotation categories, including environmental conditions, traffic context, incident types, outcomes, and associated attributes. This figure provides a high-level conceptual summary of the dataset design.  \nmodal sensor data while responding to dynamic and uncertain conditions, including surrounding traffic behavior, road geometry, pedestrians, obstacles, and weather or visibility changes. Errors in scene understanding can propagate to planning and control, leading to unsafe or incorrect driving decisions. Consequently, robust perception and contextual reasoning remain central challenges in autonomous vehicle  \ndevelopment [1, 6, 7] .  \nSubstantial progress has been made in autonomous driving over the past decade, largely driven by large-scale public datasets and standardized benchmarks. Open-source resources such as KITTI [6], Cityscapes [4], BDD100K [12], nuScenes [1], Argoverse [2], and the Waymo Open Dataset [10] have accelerated research in object detection, tracking, lane understanding, localization, and trajectory forecasting. These benchmarks have enabled modern autonomous systems to achieve strong performance under routine driving conditions and structured urban environments.  \nDespite these advances, rare safety-critical incidents remain among the most challenging scenarios for autonomous driving systems. Accidents, near-misses, and other hazardous events often arise from multiple interacting factors rather than a single perception failure. 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