Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether a vehicle inspection station present within an environment of an autonomous vehicle is active or inactive are provided, to appropriately control the autonomous vehicle and to timely respond to detection of an active vehicle inspection station. When the vehicle inspection station is determined to be active, the autonomous vehicle can be controlled to arrive at an appropriate inspection location/spot within the vehicle inspection station, where while being held for vehicle inspection, the autonomous vehicle can be in an inspection mode. Systems and methods for further determining when or whether the vehicle inspection completes are also provided, to timely and appropriately release the autonomous vehicle from the inspection mode and to exit the vehicle inspection station.

Abstract: A teleassist system may be used to assist with detecting and responding to an emergency vehicle present within an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The teleassist system can help confirm whether the emergency vehicle is active or inactive based on evaluating sensor data that is captured by one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle and that is associated with the emergency vehicle. For example, the teleassist system can provide a teleassist operator input confirming whether a detected vehicle is an emergency vehicle based on evaluation of various aspects, including siren, vehicle shape, vehicle color, and/or flashing light emitted by flash device(s) of the vehicle, etc. The teleassist operator input can further include one or more suggested autonomous vehicle control operations that enable the autonomous vehicle to comply with detection of an emergency vehicle.