Sure, but that's not what ianai asked. The question was what makes an eye better than a camera. You are comparing the human brain to a hypothetical future ideal machine brain. Replace every single driver on the road today with current state of the art machine brains operating under exactly the same conditions, and that 32k death toll will look good in comparison.

OP asked why we need more sophisticated hardware for self-driving cars than human drivers possess. My response is that the status quo is not good enough for an emerging technology. Self-driving cars are not politically viable if they kill a hundred people a day. They may not be viable if they kill 1/10th that number. That's why we need better sensors for them than we possess.

There are a number of disadvantages to human drivers. They can only look in one direction at a time, they get tired or distracted, etc. But there's no beating a human (yet) when it comes to taking visual data and trying to figure out the physical structures generating it.