Overview
- Lithuania’s transport ministry and safety authority said on Wednesday they would recognise the Dutch RDW temporary EU-type approval and Tesla confirmed FSD (Supervised) began rolling out to cars in the country.
- The RDW granted the first European approval on April 10 after an 18-month evaluation that included about 1.6 million kilometres of on-road testing, thousands of closed-track scenarios, and many customer ride-alongs.
- Lithuania accepted the RDW decision under Regulation (EU) 2018/858 so it did not repeat full tests, making it the second EU country after the Netherlands to allow the Level 2 system on public roads.
- Dutch users have reported real-world problems such as ‘phantom braking’ at a green light, and several EU agencies have raised concerns about speed allowances and winter performance that regulators are still investigating.
- The European Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles has not voted to harmonise the approval and a qualified‑majority is required for bloc-wide recognition, while Tesla is shifting European access toward monthly subscriptions and the software remains geofenced and subject to stricter EU driver-monitoring rules.