Emergency vehicle detection for autonomous vehicle

A teleassist system that is remote to an autonomous vehicle operating in an environment, the teleassist system comprising one or more processors configured to:

• communicating with the autonomous vehicle to initiate a teleassist session with the autonomous vehicle in response to the autonomous vehicle detecting a presence of an emergency vehicle in the environment;
• receiving, from the autonomous vehicle, sensor data captured by one or more sensors disposed on the autonomous vehicle;
• presenting at least portion of the sensor data received from the autonomous vehicle to a teleassist operator;
• receiving, from the teleassist operator and via a user interface of the teleassist system, teleassist operator input that suggests a vehicle control operation to control operation of the autonomous vehicle in the presence of the emergency vehicle;
• and
• communicating to the autonomous vehicle the teleassist operator input that suggests the vehicle control operation to control the operation of the autonomous vehicle.

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• detecting, by at least one processor of an autonomous vehicle and based on a first set of sensor data captured by one or more sensors disposed on the autonomous vehicle, a presence of an emergency vehicle in the environment of the autonomous vehicle;
• in response to detecting the presence of the emergency vehicle in the environment of the autonomous vehicle, communicating with a remote teleassist system to initiate a teleassist session with the remote teleassist system;
• and
• in response to the teleassist session being initiated:
• transmitting a second set of sensor data captured by the one or more sensors to the remote teleassist system, and
• receiving remote teleassist operator input that suggests a vehicle control operation to control operation of the autonomous vehicle in the environment having the presence of the emergency vehicle,
• wherein the remote teleassist operator input is based on one or more conditions of the emergency vehicle determined from the second set of sensor data captured by the one or more sensors transmitted to the remote teleassist system.