diff --git a/selenium-webdriver/index.d.ts b/selenium-webdriver/index.d.ts
index 12eaa03ada..6f31b751a9 100644
--- a/selenium-webdriver/index.d.ts
+++ b/selenium-webdriver/index.d.ts
@@ -4015,7 +4015,7 @@ export class WebDriver {
    *     rejected if the condition times out.
    * @template T
    */
-  wait<T>(condition: promise.Promise<T> | Condition<T> | ((driver: WebDriver) => T | Promise<T>) | Function, opt_timeout?: number, opt_message?: string): promise.Promise<T>;
+  wait<T>(condition: PromiseLike<T> | Condition<T> | ((driver: WebDriver) => T | PromiseLike<T>) | Function, opt_timeout?: number, opt_message?: string): promise.Promise<T>;
 
   /**
    * Schedules a command to make the driver sleep for the given amount of time.
diff --git a/selenium-webdriver/tsconfig.json b/selenium-webdriver/tsconfig.json
index 223a4d8293..af95a57736 100644
--- a/selenium-webdriver/tsconfig.json
+++ b/selenium-webdriver/tsconfig.json
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
         "lib": [
             "es6"
         ],
+        "target": "es6",
         "noImplicitAny": true,
         "noImplicitThis": false,
         "strictNullChecks": false,
diff --git a/selenium-webdriver/v2/tsconfig.json b/selenium-webdriver/v2/tsconfig.json
index ed49d9d2b8..e1c6dcdce1 100644
--- a/selenium-webdriver/v2/tsconfig.json
+++ b/selenium-webdriver/v2/tsconfig.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
         "lib": [
             "es6"
         ],
+        "target": "es6",
         "noImplicitAny": true,
         "noImplicitThis": false,
         "strictNullChecks": false,