Unveiling the Surprising Efficacy of Navigation Understanding in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

ArXi:2604.12208v1 Announce Type: cross Global navigation information and local scene understanding are two crucial components of autonomous driving systems. However, our experimental results indicate that many end-to-end autonomous driving systems tend to over-rely on local scene understanding while failing to utilize global navigation information. These systems exhibit weak correlation between their planning capabilities and navigation input, and struggle to perform navigation-following in complex scenarios.