Systems and methods for calibrating vehicle following distance determination

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• at least one non-transitory processor-readable storage medium storing processor executable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
• access an image-based distance value corresponding to an image frame, the image-based distance value indicating a following distance between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, as output by an image-based distance determination model which analyzes the image frame as captured by an image capture device positioned at the second vehicle;
• access LIDAR data captured by a LIDAR sensor positioned at the second vehicle;
• correlate, by the at least one processor, data for a LIDAR frame of the LIDAR data to a timestamp of the image frame;
• apply, by the at least one processor, a clustering algorithm to the LIDAR frame to identify a cluster of LIDAR data points representing the first vehicle;
• determine, by the at least one processor, a LIDAR-based distance between the second vehicle and the cluster of LIDAR data points;
• and
• determine, by the at least one processor, a difference between the LIDAR-based distance and the image-based distance value.