Reporting road event data and sharing with other vehicles

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving information reports relating to driving conditions from a plurality of autonomous vehicles within a fleet of autonomous vehicles;

receiving sensor data from the plurality of autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles;

validating some of the information reports based on the sensor data;

determining confidence metrics associated with information reports, wherein a confidence metric associated with an information report indicates a level of confidence in information contained within the information report;

validating information reports with associated confidence metrics above a threshold level;

combining validated information reports into a driving information map;

periodically filtering the driving information map to remove outdated information reports; and

providing portions of the driving information map to autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the threshold level is varied for individual information reports based on a level of importance of information contained within the individual information reports.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

requesting validation of some of the information reports from a human assistor before combining the information reports into the driving information map.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

providing for display of one or more captured images within a user interface presented to the human assistor to use in validating the information reports.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein information reports are validated after receiving a certain number of information reports relating to a particular driving condition within a certain time window.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein combining the information reports comprises removing duplicate information reports.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining proposed solutions to certain driving conditions associated with one or more of the information reports; and

providing the proposed solutions to autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

sending one or more vehicles to an area in order to validate an information report.

9. A system comprising:

a processor;

a control system configured to:

receive information reports relating to driving conditions from a plurality of autonomous vehicles within a fleet of autonomous vehicles;

receive sensor data from the plurality of autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles;

validate some of the information reports based on the sensor data;

determine confidence metrics associated with information reports, wherein a confidence metric associated with an information report indicates a level of confidence in information contained within the information report:

validate information reports with associated confidence metrics above a threshold level;

combine validated information reports into a driving information map; periodically filter the driving information map to remove outdated information reports; and

provide portions of the driving information map to autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the control system is further configured to:

request validation of some of the information reports from a human assistor before combining the information reports into the driving information map.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the control system is configured to validate an information report after receiving a certain number of information reports relating to a particular driving condition within a certain time window.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions, that when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform functions comprising:

receiving information reports relating to driving conditions from a plurality of autonomous vehicles within a fleet of autonomous vehicles;

receiving sensor data from the plurality of autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles;

validating some of the information reports based on the sensor data;

determining confidence metrics associated with information reports, wherein a confidence metric associated with an information report indicates a level of confidence in information contained within the information report;

validating information reports with associated confidence metrics above a threshold level;

combining validated information reports into a driving information map;

periodically filtering the driving information map to remove outdated information reports; and

providing portions of the driving information map to autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 , further comprising instructions, that when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a function comprising:

requesting validation of some of the information reports from a human assistor before combining the information reports into the driving information map.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 , further comprising instructions, that when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a function comprising:

sending one or more of the autonomous vehicles from the fleet of autonomous vehicles to an area in order to validate an information report.