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Any human who stops because he saw a red light pic should not be driving in the first place. Fortunately I think that fraction is very small.I certainly hope it does not include you.

Good for you that you’re immune to optical illusions. Quite a skill to have.

That is not what optical illusions are.

I'm not so sure about that. I think it would take more than flashing a photo for 100ms (or just putting up a photo at all for that matter) to trigger a human to stop. You have to overcome the context and I think that's harder than "one photo on the side of a highway".

“putting up a sign on the side of a highway that looks like a photo of a red light”. People have done things like that and it works pretty well.

Tech aside, the point is that disrupting traffic or causing accidents is nothing new, you can practice it today just as effectively!

Humans would be able to see that it is on a long stretch of straight road with no intersection in sight and so while they might be confused, they would not come to a sudden and instant stop.

The paper showed that self-driving cars are not quite at that level of deductive reasoning

thats a very general statement, and should be appended with “yet”