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Tesla is playing the numbers game
Tesla is basically showing Europe a giant spreadsheet and saying, “See? The robot driver is safer.” The company says its Full Self-Driving Supervised system was involved in fewer collisions per kilometer than manually driven Teslas across about 102 million kilometers of driving in five countries.
Why the timing matters
The pitch isn’t just for bragging rights. Tesla says an EU vote that could open the door to broader approval may come as soon as Oct. 6, which would be a meaningful step for a system already used by more than 70,000 customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania.
The catch? Europe isn’t exactly rubber-stamping this
Tesla’s own data comes with a giant asterisk: it’s observational, not a lab-perfect apples-to-apples test. Regulators in France and Sweden have already raised concerns, and the Dutch regulator that helped greenlight the system has been very clear that this is not full self-driving — drivers still have to supervise.
Big picture
For Tesla, every regulatory nod is another brick in the autonomy wall. If Europe opens the door wider, it helps the company argue that FSD is becoming a real product, not just a demo reel with a cool name. But the gap between “approved in more places” and “fully driverless future” is still doing Olympic-level stretching.