CONTEXT AWARE STOPPING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to context aware stopping of a vehicle 100 without a driver. As an example, after a passenger has entered the vehicle, the vehicle is maneuvered by one or more processors 120 in an autonomous driving mode towards a destination location along a route. The route is divided into two or more stages. A signal is received by the one or more processors. The signal indicates that the passenger is requesting that the vehicle stop or pull over. In response to the signal, the one or more processors determine a current stage of the route based on a current distance of the vehicle from a pickup location where the passenger entered the vehicle or a current distance of the vehicle from the destination location. The one or more processors then stop the vehicle in accordance with the determined current stage.