But the point remains that the car has been using repeaters to provide safe lane changes for years now in a large fleet of cars, and doesnt ever seem to have any trouble. If the car really was blinded do you not think we'd have seen a vast litany of people complain of the car making unsafe lane changes a la phantom braking? Where are they all?Counterpoint: this car with no headlights
You're relying on the headlights of the other car to compensate for the defect in your blind spot camera.
This seems to me pretty strong evidence that the cameras/NNs can cope quite well with the light leakage (and see my earlier posts for a discussion of why this is probably the case).