Autonomous Vehicle Use Case

Make Self-Driving AI Explainable

Every perception. Every decision. Every action. Observable, queryable, and auditable. Finally answer the question regulators, lawyers, and engineers all ask: "Why did the car do that?"

"The AI is a black box. We can't explain its decisions."

This is the fundamental challenge of autonomous vehicles. When something goes wrong, nobody can trace the exact chain of perception → decision → action.

Regulatory Nightmare

NHTSA investigations require explaining every decision. Without structured telemetry, teams spend months reconstructing what happened.

Legal Liability

In litigation, "the AI decided" isn't a defense. You need to show exactly what the system perceived, decided, and why.

Engineering Blind Spots

When the AI makes an unexpected decision, engineers can't query "show me all similar decisions" because events aren't structured.

The Event Model Solution

Every autonomous driving decision becomes a structured, queryable event. The same domain.entity.action:version pattern that works for code telemetry works for vehicle telemetry.

LIVE Vehicle Event Stream
VIN: 5YJ3E1EA8MF...847
vehicle.perception.lidar_scan_complete:1 14:32:01.003
vehicle.perception.pedestrian_detected:1 14:32:01.047
vehicle.decision.path_recalculated:2 14:32:01.089
vehicle.decision.yield_initiated:1 14:32:01.112
vehicle.control.brake_applied:1 14:32:01.134
vehicle.safety.collision_avoided:1 14:32:01.156
vehicle.perception.pedestrian_cleared:1 14:32:03.221
vehicle.decision.proceed_initiated:1 14:32:03.289
vehicle.control.throttle_applied:1 14:32:03.312

Query Anything. Instantly.

Regulatory Investigation
WHERE event_id LIKE 'vehicle.decision.%'
AND timestamp BETWEEN '14:32:00' AND '14:32:02'
Show every decision the AI made in that 2-second window. Exact chain of reasoning.
Fleet-Wide Analysis
WHERE event_id = 'vehicle.safety.collision_avoided:1'
GROUP BY vehicle_id
Which vehicles are avoiding the most collisions? Is this a sensor calibration issue?
Failure Pattern Detection
WHERE event_id LIKE 'vehicle.%.failed:%'
ORDER BY timestamp DESC
All failures across all subsystems. Find patterns before they become incidents.
AI Feedback Loop
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM events
WHERE decision.confidence < 0.7
GROUP BY decision_type
Which decisions is the AI least confident about? Train on those scenarios.
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Regulatory Compliance

NHTSA, NTSB, EU regulators all want the same thing: explain what happened. EventIDs give you a complete, queryable record of every decision.

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Legal Protection

In litigation, show the exact perception → decision → action chain. The AI isn't a black box anymore — it's an auditable system.

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AI Self-Improvement

The AI can reason about its own decisions. "I made 47 yield decisions today. 3 were unnecessary." That's the feedback loop.

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Faster Iteration

Query "all left-turn decisions where confidence < 0.8" across your entire fleet. Find edge cases in seconds, not months.

"The most important thing is the rate of improvement. If you're not improving, you're dying."

The Event Model enables continuous improvement by making every AI decision observable.
You can't improve what you can't measure.

Make Your AI Explainable

The same Event Model that makes AI code observable can make autonomous systems auditable. Start with the specification, build with the playground.

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