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Yes. The human eye is attached to the human brain, which we haven't yet been able to reproduce for the machine.

• JumpCrisscross 9y ago
  > the human eye is attached to the human brain And those human brains are attached to human arms which navigate Americans into 32,000 motor vehicle deaths a year [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
  • diggernet 9y ago
    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.
    • JumpCrisscross 9y ago
      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.
  • Symmetry 9y ago
    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.
• tyingq 9y ago
  Maybe a good example here is that most humans wouldn't try to avoid a plastic shopping bag floating in front of a car. Or our ability to interpret facial expressions of pedestrians to help gauge if they might walk out in front of the car.