System and method for autonomous vehicle performance grading based on human reasoning

A system for operating an autonomous vehicle, comprising:

• a control system for performing a driving action at the autonomous vehicle;
• and
• a cognitive system for generating the driving action using an evaluation model, wherein the evaluation model is generated by:
• operating the cognitive system in response to a training set of data to generate a planned action for operating the autonomous vehicle by the cognitive system;
• evaluating the planned action to obtain a system performance grade;
• and
• updating the cognitive system based on a comparison of the system performance grade to a human-based performance grade.

An autonomous vehicle, comprising:

• a cognitive system for generating a driving action using an evaluation model, wherein the evaluation model is generated by:
• operating the cognitive system in response to a training set of data to generate a planned action for operating the autonomous vehicle by the cognitive system;
• evaluating the planned action to obtain a system performance grade;
• and
• updating the cognitive system based on a comparison of the system performance grade to a human-based performance grade.