1. A method comprising: receiving, at an autonomous vehicle, reported data regarding an object in proximity to the autonomous vehicle, the data collected by a collecting device external to the autonomous vehicle and relayed to the autonomous vehicle via a server, the reported data including at least one of a current location of the object, a type of the object, and a predicted location of the object; determining, at the autonomous vehicle, whether the reported data of the object correlates with a found object in an object list; if the determination finds the found object in the object list, adding the reported data of the object to data associated with the found object in the object list; and otherwise, adding the reported data of the object to an object list of objects detected by sensor from on-board sensors of the autonomous vehicle.