Reasoning models do not yet follow their reasoning in autonomous driving: The KITScenes LongTail Dataset
Handling rare events is the central open challenge in autonomous driving. Reasoning models, which generate explicit chains of reasoning before acting, promise to generalize to such events. Here we show that these models frequently do not follow their own reasoning: the actions they state in their reasoning often diverge from the actions they ultimately execute. We introduce KITScenes LongTail, a curated dataset of rare driving scenarios to quantify this divergence through a measure of semantic reasoning-action coherence. We find that incoherence is widespread across current general-purpose and domain-specific models. Strikingly, when reasoned actions and executed actions disagree, the reasoning is usually right: extracting actions from the reasoning trace and executing them through a kinematic model enforces coherence and typically improves motion planning. These results suggest that the reasoning capabilities of current models exceed what their actions reveal, and that coherently acting on stated reasoning is a prerequisite for trustworthy autonomous driving. Our dataset and evaluation space are available at: https://hf.co/datasets/kit-mrt/kitscenes-longtail
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