A research team led by Prof. Jun Won Choi of Seoul National University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has independently developed SafeDrive, an end-to-end autonomous driving AI model, which has been selected as a Highlight Paper at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026. Highlight papers at CVPR represent approximately 3% of all submissions and about 10% of accepted papers. The team proposed a novel method called Fine-grained Safety Reasoning, which evaluates multiple candidate driving trajectories by combining them with perception results and quantitatively scoring their safety. This marks the first time a domestically developed end-to-end autonomous driving research paper has been accepted and selected as a Highlight Paper at CVPR. The model has been incorporated into EAD (Evolutionary Autonomous Driving), a reference model for commercializing End-to-End autonomous driving, currently being developed by an SNU-led consortium with support from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Validation studies are also underway in collaboration with Korean autonomous driving companies to deploy the model in real vehicles.