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It's clear from the video that a human driver actually would've had more trouble since the pedestrian showed up in the field of view right before the collision, yet that's in the visible spectrum. That's not at all clear to me. I don't know too much about cameras, but it looks to me like the camera is making the scene appear much darker than it actually is. In the video, you can see many street lights projecting down…
Since in the video, we aren't seeing the original scene, but rather, the camera's interpretation of that scene, I think it would be hard to judge except to base it on what your average streetlight brightness is. Like a camera, your eye also has only so much dynamic range. So if those street lights are bright enough, or your interior lights are too bright, you might have nearly zero visibility in those shadows. But it…
Sounds a lot like rods and cones in our eyes, huh?
There's another difference with eyeballs that would almost certainly have helped here - the low light sensitive peripheral vision that the rods provide is also attuned to movement, we're more sensitive to movement in peripheral vision as well as being better able to see in low light.