Guidance of autonomous vehicles in destination vicinities using intent signals

A system, comprising:

• one or more sensor devices;
• and
• a navigation manager implemented at least in part at a computing device;
• wherein the navigation manager is configured to:
• detect, using the one or more sensor devices, one or more signals generated by an individual permitted to provide guidance with respect to movements of a vehicle, wherein the one or more signals are usable to determine a path towards a particular vehicle stopping point of a plurality of vehicle stopping points in a vicinity of a destination;
• identify, based at least in part on (a) the one or more signals and (b) a data set pertaining to an external environment of the vehicle, one or more vehicular movements to be implemented to proceed along the path;
• and
• transmit a first directive to one or more motion control subsystems of the vehicle to initiate at least a first vehicular movement of the one or more vehicular movements.

A non-transitory computer-accessible storage medium storing program instructions that when executed on one or more processors:

• detect, using one or more sensor devices, one or more signals generated by an individual permitted to provide guidance with respect to movements of a vehicle, wherein the one or more signals are usable to determine a path towards a particular vehicle stopping point of a plurality of vehicle stopping points in a vicinity of a destination;
• identify, based at least in part on (a) the one or more signals and (b) a data set pertaining to an external environment of the vehicle, one or more vehicular movements to be implemented to proceed along the path;
• and
• transmit a first directive to one or more motion control subsystems of the vehicle to initiate at least a first vehicular movement of the one or more vehicular movements.