INFERRING STATE OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF A VEHICLE'S ENVIRONMENT BASED ON SURROGATE DATA

摘要

A vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous mode obtains sensor data from one or more sensors observing one or more aspects of an environment of the vehicle. The state of a traffic light blocked by a truck cannot be observed by the one or more sensors and is inferred based on the sensor data. The vehicle is then controlled in the autonomous mode based on the at least one inferred aspect.