[jimfleming]

This is sort of true. Birds are significantly more energy efficient than planes for some kinds of flight. Birds are also able to perform maneuvers that planes cannot such as landing on a branch. For transportation we just don't care about these features.

I agree that CV does not need to mimick everything about human vision but we still have a long way to go before having vision as robust and efficient as humans. Moreover there are benefits in interpretability and explainability to mimicking human vision more closely. If CV perceived the world similarly it can fail in more similar and predictable ways.