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Thing? Like a garbage bin? Or a sign?
Person, dog, cat, rolling cart, bicycle, etc.
If the car is smart enough to recognize a stationary atop sign then it should be able to ignore a permantly mounted crosswalk sign or indicator light at a crosswalk and exclude those from things that might move into the street. Or it could just stop and wait a couple seconds if it isn't sure.
A woman was killed by a self driving car because she walked her bicycle across the road. The car hadn't been programmed to understand what a person walking a bicycle is. Its AI switched between classifying her as a pedestrian, cyclist, and "unknown". It couldn't tell whether to slow down, and then it hit her. The engineers forgot to add a category, and someone died.
It shouldn't even matter what category things are when they are on the road. If anything larger than gravel is in the road the car should stop.