Mitigating outage of service provided by autonomous vehicle

Abstract

An AV may determine a degradation score based on data indicating a condition of an environment where the AV operates to provide a service. The degradation score may indicate a degradation in a performance of the AV (e.g., one or more sensors of the AV) under the condition. After determining that the degradation score is higher than a threshold, the AV may pause the service, e.g., by moving out of the traffic lane or pulling over. The AV may re-check the condition later and determine a new degradation score. After determining that degradation score is lower than the threshold, the AV may resume the service, e.g., by moving back to the traffic lane. The AV may determine that the degradation score is higher than another threshold and in response to the determination, stops where it is, e.g., in a traffic lane. The AV may request remote assistance or retrieval.