Energy saving actions for autonomous driving systems

A system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processing device, coupled to the memory, to perform operation comprising:
• providing, to a vehicle control module, a control command identifying one or more vehicle actions to be performed by the vehicle control module to control a position of an autonomous vehicle (AV) with respect to an external environment;
• determining whether one or more conditions pertaining to the position of the AV with respect to the external environment are satisfied;
• and
• responsive to determining that the one or more conditions pertaining to the position of the AV with respect to the external environment are satisfied, providing, to the vehicle control module, a first instruction that permits the vehicle control module to deviate from the one or more vehicle actions identified in the control command and to perform an energy saving action with respect to the AV.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• providing, to a vehicle control module, a control command identifying one or more vehicle actions to be performed by the vehicle control module to control a position of an autonomous vehicle (AV) with respect to an external environment;
• determining whether one or more conditions pertaining to the position of the AV with respect to the external environment are satisfied;
• and
• responsive to determining that the one or more conditions pertaining to the position of the AV with respect to the external environment are satisfied, providing, to the vehicle control module, a first instruction that permits the vehicle control module to deviate from the one or more vehicle actions identified in the control command and to perform an energy saving action with respect to the AV.