When I'm driving at night I cannot reliably determine the difference between a moose and an empty stretch of road because unlike deer moose do not have reflective eyes and stand tall enough that headlights will merely show a few easy to miss dark lines (the legs). One of these (empty road) I am perfectly fine to drive through. The other will result in bad day all around (assuming either side survives).

Ie, I find people like you just, like, mindbogglingly ridiculous. Sure, no single sensor is going to magically solve everything. But we have tens of thousands of deaths and millions of casualties a year with humans at the wheel, and a sizable number of them are due to the limits of human visual spectrum input. The goal here shouldn't be to match human limits but to greatly exceed them. FLIR, lidar, radar, ultrasonics, all around vision in general, all should be part of the final package. Crashes, injuries and deaths are expensive to put it mildly. The idea that cameras are or ever could be good enough is absurd, and that was if they were as good as human eyes, which they aren't. No amount of software or compute power is going to deal with lack of quality input data, and the visible spectrum alone just can't provide that consistently without costs we have long since determined are unacceptable (have ultra high output flood lights around all vehicles). More sensors beyond human senses can both cover scenarios we can't and help fill in for individual sensors not being as high quality as might be ideal yet.