Among other things, a vehicle drives autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention; and an automatic process alters the planning of the trajectory...

A system (10) for operating an autonomous vehicle includes a passenger-detector (18) and a controller-circuit (32). The passenger-detector (18) is operable to determine a passenger-count (20) of passengers (22) present in a host-vehicle (12). The controlle...