Aurora Operations, Inc.

Niels Joubert

Stephen O'Hara

Benjamin Kaplan

Nemanja Djuric

Brian Baumgartner

A teleassist system may be used to assist with detecting and responding to an emergency vehicle present within an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The teleassist system can help confirm whether the emergency vehicle is active or inactive based on evaluating sensor data that is captured by one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle and that is associated with the emergency vehicle. For example, the teleassist system can provide a teleassist operator input confirming whether a detected vehicle is an emergency vehicle based on evaluation of various aspects, including siren, vehicle shape, vehicle color, and/or flashing light emitted by flash device(s) of the vehicle, etc. The teleassist operator input can further include one or more suggested autonomous vehicle control operations that enable the autonomous vehicle to comply with detection of an emergency vehicle.

Emergency vehicle detection for autonomous vehicle

A live map system may be used to propagate observations collected by autonomous vehicles operating in an environment to other autonomous vehicles and thereby supplement a digital map used in the control of the autonomous vehicles. In addition, a live map system in some instances may be used to propagate location-based teleassist triggers to autonomous vehicles operating within an environment. A location-based teleassist trigger may be generated, for example, in association with a teleassist session conducted between an autonomous vehicle and a remote teleassist system proximate a particular location, and may be used to automatically trigger a teleassist session for another autonomous vehicle proximate that location and/or to propagate a suggested action to that other autonomous vehicle.

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Niels Joubert