It's only "kind of" if they compensate for the reduced specs. As the root commenter said, they don't compensate yet. It's just less safe in those situations.

Whether it's fine to be less safe in certain situations because it's safer overall is a different question.

> In the places you are not looking your brain is computing what it thinks is happening, not actually watching it.

The existence of peripheral vision disputes that pretty definitively, though.

I do recommend that you stop and watch the video first to understand better what's going on there....

I tried but it's not available in my country, sadly.

I should have said eyes+brain in combination have much better dynamic range and FPS perception than self driving systems. Point remains unchanged -- what sensor you use is tied to the computation you need to do. What you see is the sum of computation+sensor so it's impossible for sensor not to matter.

Tangential: event cameras work more like our eyes but aren't ready for AVs yet.