Protolanes for testing autonomous vehicle intent

A system, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to perform operations comprising:
• selecting a first lane segment of a roadway within a geonet, wherein the geonet comprises a plurality of lane segments,
• determining that the first lane segment corresponds to a protolane of a set of protolanes, wherein the protolane is associated with one or more additional lane segments of the plurality of lane segments, and
• associating the protolane with the first lane segment based on the determination that the first lane segment corresponds to the protolane.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

• selecting a first lane segment of a roadway within a geonet, wherein the geonet comprises a plurality of lane segments;
• determining that the first lane segment corresponds to a protolane of a set of protolanes, wherein the protolane is associated with one or more additional lane segments of the plurality of lane segments;
• and
• associating the protolane with the first lane segment based on the determination that the first lane segment corresponds to the protolane.