System and method for modifying actions taken by an autonomous vehicle

A method for modifying actions taken by an autonomous driving module of an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:

• determining a heading received by a touch or voice input from a passenger of the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous driving module is in an autonomous mode;
• modifying one or more actions to be performed by the autonomous driving module while maintaining the autonomous mode of the autonomous driving module when a heading is indicated by the input of the passenger, wherein the one or more actions includes increasing an amount of sensor data from the heading indicated by the passenger from a sensor of a sensor system considered by the autonomous driving module to generate additional sensor data from the sensor;
• determining presence of errors in a subset of the sensor data indicated by the heading using the additional sensor data from the sensor;
• and
• Controlling the driving of the vehicle based on the determined presence of errors.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium for modifying actions taken by an autonomous driving module of an autonomous vehicle, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:

• determine a heading received by touch or voice input from a passenger of the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous driving module is in an autonomous mode;
• modify one or more actions to be performed by the autonomous driving module while maintaining the autonomous mode of the autonomous driving module when a heading is indicated by the input of the passenger, wherein the one or more actions includes increasing an amount of sensor data from the heading indicated by the passenger from a sensor of a sensor system considered by the autonomous driving module to generate additional sensor data from the sensor;
• determining presence of errors in a subset of the sensor data indicated by the heading using the additional sensor data from the sensor;
• and
• Control the driving of the vehicle based on the determined presence of errors.