Humans drive great when they're not distracted, with just two 2d cameras. But we get distracted a lot.
So an advanced enough AI could easily be better at humans than driving w/o LIDAR, simply by driving as well as humans when not distracted, and not getting distracted.
Agreed. Once we're past "the singularity" a computer with human hardware can drive as good as humans. But our eyes are not cameras and the singularity hasn't happened last time I checked. Btw, we also need some additional hardware to do a good job, headlights, defogger, wiper blades...
So an advanced enough AI could easily be better at humans than driving w/o LIDAR, simply by driving as well as humans when not distracted, and not getting distracted.