AUTONOMOUS DRIVING AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE VEHICLE

An autonomous driving vehicle may include at least one sensor configured to sense a surrounding environment of the vehicle and to generate surrounding environment information, a processor configured to monitor a state of the vehicle to generate vehicle state information and to determine whether a minimum risk maneuver is needed based on at least one among the surrounding environment information or the vehicle state information during an autonomous driving of the vehicle, and a controller configured to control operation of the vehicle according to control of the processor, and the processor may be configured to determine a minimum risk maneuver type when it is determined that the minimum risk maneuver is needed, and to predict a straight stop allowance space and a risk of a collision when the determined minimum risk maneuver type is straight stop within an intersection.