The present application discloses at least a method and apparatus for rescuing driverless vehicles. A specific implementation of the method includes: collecting status information of a driverless vehicle； determining whether the driverless vehicle has an autonomous driving ability； if not, setting a driving mode of the driverless vehicle to a manual driving mode and further determining whether the driverless vehicle has a traveling ability in the manual driving mode； and collecting passenger information of the driverless vehicle and sending the status information and the passenger information to a cloud server providing support for the driverless vehicle, in response to the driverless vehicle not having the traveling ability in the manual driving mode. This implementation may achieve effective vehicle rescue.
