LiDAR plays an important role in the field of unmanned driving. Ground filtering is the key technology to separate and extract the ground information from the point cloud data acquired by LiDAR. Firstly, the development and classification of vehicle LiDAR scans (VLS) are introduced, and the advantages and disadvantages of all kinds of VLS are discussed. Then, the development of VLS ground filtering algorithm is studied and classified. The evaluation methods and standards of ground filtering accuracy are described, and three typical algorithms are compared and analyzed. Finally, the shortcomings of current VLS and its ground filtering algorithms are summarized, and the future development trend is prospected.