Technologies and techniques for supporting an autonomous vehicle wherein objects in surroundings of the vehicle are captured by a sensor system, and wherein objects are identified and recognized by object recognition from captured data relating to the surroundings. When an unknown object is present in the surroundings, the unknown object if found in at least one database, typical properties of the unknown object are determined on the basis of the search result, a recommended course of action is derived for the autonomous vehicle on the basis of the typical properties of the unknown object, and the derived recommended course of action are provided to the vehicle.