From Intent to Action: Benchmarking LLM Safety in Vehicle Voice Command Authorization
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into vehicle voice assistants.
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| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 26% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trustleads | 0.25 | 0.85 | +0.212 41% | arXiv is the highest-trust source on this story and is first-party — the organisation announcing its own news. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.85 | +0.171 33% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
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What happened
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into vehicle voice assistants. But linking natural-language requests to vehicle functions creates a safety-critical authorization problem. Before executing a command, the system must choose whether to execute, refuse, clarify, require confirmation, defer to manual control, trigger an emergency response, or make no tool call. To our knowledge, prior evaluations do not isolate this pre-action decision across speaker role, authentication status, vehicle state, and tool availability. We introduce a 202-scenario benchmark with Reference Decisions under a seven-class taxonomy.
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