The disclosed systems and techniques facilitate efficient prediction of crowd behavior and safe and courteous navigation of crowded areas in driving environments. An example disclosed system includes a sensing system and a data processing system of a vehic...

The disclosed technology pertains to methods and systems for mitigating the effects of weather on radar imagery. A computing system may receive radar imagery corresponding to an environment of the vehicle and estimate weather conditions for the environment...

The technology involves to pickups performed by autonomous vehicles. In particular, it includes identifying one or more potential pullover locations adjacent to an area of interest that an autonomous vehicle is approaching. The vehicle detects that a given...

Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure relate, generally, to optimization of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and, more specifically, to a transfer hub for autonomous trucking operations. In one example, the disclosed techniques include ob...

Example systems and methods enable an autonomous vehicle to request assistance from a remote operator when the vehicle's confidence in operation is low. One example method includes operating an autonomous vehicle in a first autonomous mode. The method may ...

Aspects of the disclosure provide for generation of trajectories for a vehicle driving in an autonomous driving mode. In one instance, a default number of trajectories to be generated may be identified. A set of maneuvering options may be selected from a s...

The present radio system transmits an electromagnetic signal to nearby devices requesting the device respond. The radio system also receives responses to the electromagnetic signal from the nearby devices. Based on the radio technology used, the signaling ...