Patent ID: 8914212

Claim:
A method comprising: maneuvering, by one or more processors, a vehicle along a route including a roadway in an autonomous driving mode without continuous input from a driver; receiving, by the one or more processors, sensor data about an external environment of the vehicle collected by sensors associated with the vehicle; identifying, by the one or more processors, an object in the external environment of the vehicle from the sensor data; determining, by one or more processors, that the object is likely to cross the roadway based on a current heading and speed of the object as determined from the sensor data; and based on the determination, selecting, by the one or more processors, a plan of action for responding to the object including yielding to the object; and providing, by the one or more processor, without specific initiating input from the driver, a notification to the object indicating that the vehicle will yield to the object and allow the object to cross the roadway.