You wouldn't need two different cameras, just one camera shooting HDR video (alternating between over/underexposing the frame so that no information is clipped) to get a clear image at all exposure levels.

Eyeballs are pretty good at night vision once adjusted, but good high sensitivity cameras can be much better. And let's not get started on LIDAR/RADAR... it seems clear to me that this was not a sensory deficiency, it was poorly designed/tested software.