For this reason, I also don’t see how we could ever travel at faster than light speeds because we wouldn’t have the information that we won’t crash into something at the other end.
Yes, but I think once we reach that point we'd also be sending out some sort of mapping probes to gather data so you know where obstructions are. And since lots of things don't just sit still, they'd have to be constantly reevaluated somehow. Maybe sensors sending out data of what lies ahead kind of like our GPS. It will be an interesting issue to solve if we make it that long. But looking at how we're doing in our infancy with "self driving," we quite a long ways off lol.
In the Dune novel, the solution for this was a kind of evolved/specialized human kind that was able to see a bit into the future (with the help of a "drug", the Spice). Only this kind of "human" could be a pilot of a faster-than-light spaceships.
FTL rocket will be able to hit photons emitted from objects, thus it will be able to see in the direction of movement. Headlight will not work, of course.