These things seem easy, but many years of engineering and physics-based models have not managed it. Will AI blow our minds?
Yeah the stop sign behavior is so annoying. I mostly just drive them manually nowdays.
I'm inclined to think this is relatively easy in the grand scheme of self driving cars, but Tesla has made virtually no changes to driving policy in V11 (only the perception layer). I'm guessing they're fully committed to V12 at this point and just not bothering to spend any resources on problems like this.
A bit annoying as users, but I can understand the reasoning.
I think I have similar preferences to you: I'd like the car brake more assertively (higher acceleration and jerk, in physics terms). Stop for just long enough. And then punch it.