Again, another claim that a brain or AGI is required to drive a car. Does anyone have any research to cite that establishes this seemingly known fact?
Secondarily, there is no guarantee that the amount of processing is enough, because the extant human systems use much more.
“Cheating” by using more sensors to simplify out complexities and to cover for the shortcomings of other sensors in the suite seems wise.
Also, "cheating" is just a necessary step to build baseline metrics. You need ground truth.
It may very well be the case that cheating is needed to generate the training data necessary to stop cheating...someday.