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In such situations, the car should take the safest action and assume it's a pedestrian.
But mechanically that's just moving the confidence threshold to 100% which is not achievable as far as I can tell. It quickly reduces to "all objects are pedestrians" which halts traffic.
This would only be in ambiguous situations when the confidence level of "pedestrian" and "cyclist" are close to each other. If there's an object with 20% confidence level that it's a pedestrian, it's probably not. But we're talking about the situation when you have to decide whether to yield or not, which isn't really safety critical.
The car should avoid any collisions with any object regardless of whether it's a pedestrian, cyclist, cat, box, fallen tree or any other object, moving or not.