  Since DARPA Grand Challenges (rural) in 2004/05 and Urban Challenges in 2007,
autonomous driving has been the most active field of AI applications. Recently
powered by large language models (LLMs), chat systems, such as chatGPT and
PaLM, emerge and rapidly become a promising direction to achieve artificial
general intelligence (AGI) in natural language processing (NLP). There comes a
natural thinking that we could employ these abilities to reformulate autonomous
driving. By combining LLM with foundation models, it is possible to utilize the
human knowledge, commonsense and reasoning to rebuild autonomous driving
systems from the current long-tailed AI dilemma. In this paper, we investigate
the techniques of foundation models and LLMs applied for autonomous driving,
categorized as simulation, world model, data annotation and planning or E2E
solutions etc.
