📄 DriveZero: End-to-End Driving Beyond Human Demonstrations by Hao He, Chengcheng Hu et al. Decouples action and perception pretraining: RL learns a privileged driving teacher, multi-VFM…

Xiaomi EV's DriveZero learns to drive beyond human demonstrations Perception and action are pretrained separately, then distilled into one camera-only planner. DriveZero beats the human driver on…

6/n 🌍 Real-world Deployment DriveRL deployed on a small fleet and validated in real traffic. It is trained on our own driving logs with self-play enabled. Here DriveRL controls the vehicle in closed…

Verdict: Solid result, will likely replicate — rigorous closed-loop evaluation across three benchmarks, clear decomposition, though production feasibility remains untested.