Methods and Systems for Automatic Introspective Perception

Example embodiments relate to self-supervisory and automatic response techniques and systems. A computing system may use sensor data from an autonomous vehicle sensor to detect an object in the environment of the vehicle as the vehicle navigates a path. The computing system may then determine a detection distance between the object and the sensor responsive to detecting the object. The computing system may then perform a comparison between the detection distance and a baseline detection distance that depends on one or more prior detections of given objects that are in the same classification group as the object. The computing system may then adjust a control strategy for the vehicle based on the comparison.