I do not rely on just my eyes when driving and if I did I'd have been in at least one accident. I also rely on hearing and feel (vibrations, difficulty steering, car movement, etc.). Studies support this by indicating those who have hearing difficulties are more likely to get into accidents. I also rely on an organic computer far more powerful than anything you can shove into a car with modern technology and a pair of cameras with better dynamic range than anything on the market. Plus the ability to dynamically reposition these sensors by a couple feet.
Once you can shove a human brain's worth of compute and memory into a car, along with an amazingly good set of 360 coverage stereo cameras, great stereo microphones, and multi accelerometers we can start talking about "LIDAR not mattering because the car can do what a human does and a human doesn't have LIDAR." Of course then you've got 20+ sensors that may disagree with each other anyways so LIDAR is probably going to mean fewer sensors overall.
Once you can shove a human brain's worth of compute and memory into a car, along with an amazingly good set of 360 coverage stereo cameras, great stereo microphones, and multi accelerometers we can start talking about "LIDAR not mattering because the car can do what a human does and a human doesn't have LIDAR." Of course then you've got 20+ sensors that may disagree with each other anyways so LIDAR is probably going to mean fewer sensors overall.