Great-grandparent comment suggests that they did not, in fact, design for it. Assuming the best is nice when you have no information, but we have information.

I'm not assuming the best, I'm assuming basics. We've just watched a presentation where Tesla put immense resources and talent into designing a state of the art vision processing chip. Do you think they're going to let it be rendered useless by not implementing simple physical measures to keep vision coming in from the cameras? (What measures are already there plus easy opportunity for improvement). Of course not. Such a line of argumentation is transparently bogus. I don't know why the top level commenter's autopilot turned off in the snow but trying to argue that that shows that snow renders cameras useless and makes lidar necessary is stupid. Sorry for the strong language but really, I don't know how else to put it.

The basics. Like having a trunk lid design that sheds water properly?

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/water-dripping-into-...

Shut down the company the trunk is slightly off.

Tesla is new to the game, give them a few more cars to catch small stuff like that.

Tesla has been around for 16 years, so I think it's not too critical to expect them to be able to sweat the small stuff.

16 years is a tiny fraction compared to the other car companies you're comparing it to.

But ask yourself, what's more likely, the other car companies catch up to their AI and battery tech, or Tesla fixes the trunk in the next model?

I have seen recent Teslas in person in the showrooms, and there doesn't appear to be any wiper for the cameras. Especially with a firsthand owner account just a few comments up I think it's actually only logical at this point to assume they didn't put wipers on the cameras.

I would think that heating the glass (and surrounding casing) would be a more effective measure for keeping a camera clear of snow.

Well they didn't do that either. They didn't do anything for it. But don't worry, FSD is just around the corner and the cars have all the hardware necessary, it's just a software problem now. And this time it's different than in 2016 when they said they had all the hardware they needed. And it's different from 2015 when they said the FSD was coming in 2016.

It's not that hard.

In our 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle, we had a system to clean the camera and LIDAR. It used a spray nozzle, and alternated spraying windshield cleaner and air. This is a commercial truck accessory used on mining trucks.