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Most of what is happening on that video appears to be a human controlling the vehicle, the overlay is just what the computer sees. In current public releases autopilot only warns you that it thinks you are going to run a red light / stop sign. And it is up for the human driver to actually stop. So, unless its on some beta release it was probably a human that rolled through it.

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> warns you that it thinks you are going to run a red light / stop sign

I need this feature, and I would prefer this to full autonomous driving.

A computer that warns you when you're about to make a mistake is achievable today and will increase safety for everyone.

This. I expect this to be the near term outcome of a lot of autonomous driving projects, which is one of the reasons that despite my scepticism about the idea we're close to abandoning the steering wheel I still think the research itself is inherently worthwhile when conducted safely.

I was in a Honda Stepwagn last week and that one recognised stop signs and clearly displayed it.

These can make neat demos but what’s the false negative rate?

I don't think that data exists (outside of Honda's internal servers), does similar data exist for Teslas?

I doubt that even Honda knows.

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