Humans drive great when they're not distracted, with just two 2d cameras. But we get distracted a lot.

So an advanced enough AI could easily be better at humans than driving w/o LIDAR, simply by driving as well as humans when not distracted, and not getting distracted.

Agreed. Once we're past "the singularity" a computer with human hardware can drive as good as humans. But our eyes are not cameras and the singularity hasn't happened last time I checked. Btw, we also need some additional hardware to do a good job, headlights, defogger, wiper blades...

An advanced enough AI, and we are really far from it. Current AIs are really good at isolated problem solving, but driving is not in that domain.