Method and system to predict vehicle traffic behavior for autonomous vehicles to make driving decisions

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• generating one or more predicted trajectories based on sensor data received from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, each of the predicted trajectories being associated with a probability;
• detecting one or more gestures from one or more vehicles other than the autonomous vehicle in accordance with a gesture detection protocol;
• emitting one or more gestures from the autonomous vehicle to communicate with the one or more vehicles in accordance with a gesture emission protocol based on the detected gestures;
• modifying the predicted trajectories based on the detected gestures, the emitted gestures, and the associated probabilities of the predicted trajectories;
• and
• controlling the autonomous vehicle based on the modified predicted trajectories.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations including:
• generating one or more predicted trajectories based on sensor data received from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, each of the predicted the predicted trajectories being associated with a probability,
• detecting one or more gestures from one or more vehicles other than the autonomous vehicle in accordance with a gesture detection protocol,
• emitting one or more gestures from the autonomous vehicle to communicate with the one or more vehicles in accordance with a gesture emission protocol based on the detected gestures,
• modifying the predicted trajectories based on the detected gestures, the emitted gestures, and the associated probabilities of the predicted trajectories, and controlling the autonomous vehicle based on the modified predicted trajectories.