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I don't believe that's actually the case that cameras have better dynamic range than humans. From what I've seen human vision is definitely in the 20+ stop range. It's especially doubtful that cameras that are cheap enough to put on an autonomous system would get anywhere near that.

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The human eye uses a lot of tricks to be high effective dynamic range but the retina is a long way from 20 stops. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging

So, in a direct comparison where cameras are allowed to use a similar set of tricks tricks including a fair amount of post processing they actually win. Aka, Retna vs CCD the CCD wins, iris vs iris camera wins etc.

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