This can include temporary lane closures, diversions, and situations where a police officer is directing traffic with hand signals. The latter is now something Waymo's autonomous cars can deal with.

Waymo self-driving cars can now respond to traffic cops' hand signals Skeptics of self-driving cars like to ask how the vehicles' automated software will handle unexpected, unusual situations.

Watch a Self-Driving Car Obey Police Hand Signals Waymo's autonomous vehicles can be waved through a broken traffic light. / Advanced Transport / Advanced Transport / Autonomous Vehicles / Waymo ...

Apple is researching how to make a future "Apple Car" correctly recognize and respond to a person directing traffic at the site of an accident, or a parking attendant telling you which way to go.

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Waymo first claimed that its autonomous vehicles could respond to hand signals from nearby cyclists back in 2016. That particular research treated cyclists, from the vehicle's perspective, as ...

One such idea is described in a patent called “traffic direction gesture recognition,” which details how a car can automatically detect the hand signals of a traffic officer and then act ...