Teleassistance data prioritization for self-driving vehicles

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• analyze a live sensor view of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) in accordance with a safety threshold to (i) detect objects of interest along a route, and (ii) classify each respective object of the detected objects of interest;
• determine that the safety threshold is not met;
• in response to determining that the safety threshold is not met, transmit a first teleassistance inquiry to a backend computing system, the first teleassistance inquiry comprising LIDAR data;
• determine that a classification of one or more of the detected objects of interest does not satisfy a certainty threshold;
• in response to determining that the classification of the one or more of the detected objects of interest does not satisfy the certainty threshold, transmit a second teleassistance inquiry to the backend computing system, the second teleassistance inquiry comprising image data that includes the one or more detected objects of interest;
• receive a resolution response from the backend computing system;
• and
• provide a control system of the SDV with data corresponding to the resolution response to enable the SDV to proceed in accordance with the resolution response.

A computer-implemented method performed by one or more processors and comprising:

• analyzing a live sensor view of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) in accordance with a safety threshold to (i) detect objects of interest along a route, and (ii) classify each respective object of the detected objects of interest;
• determining that the safety threshold is not met;
• in response to determining that the safety threshold is not met, transmitting a first teleassistance inquiry to a backend computing system, the first teleassistance inquiry comprising LIDAR data;
• determining that a classification of one or more of the detected objects of interest does not satisfy a certainty threshold;
• in response to determining that the classification of the one or more of the detected objects of interest does not satisfy the certainty threshold, transmitting a second teleassistance inquiry to the backend computing system, the second teleassistance inquiry comprising image data that includes the one or more detected objects of interest;
• receiving a resolution response from the backend computing system;
• and
• providing a control system of the SDV with data corresponding to the resolution response to enable the SDV to proceed in accordance with the resolution response.